Re: [Evolution] sometimes can't get mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 21:55 +1200, Victoria Spagnolo wrote:
> In the past year I've taken my laptop to meetings in other cities
> where
> wireless was available and had trouble with sending/receiving mail. As
> I
> recall, I'd connect, visit some sites, send/receive mail, then
> disconnect. Sometime later I'd connect, visit some sites but couldn't
> send or receive mail. And maybe one time I could receive but not send.
> I
> know that isn't much detail. I am just asking for advice on what I can
> try or how to investigate this behaviour next time this happens.

Please explain what you mean by "couldn't send or receive". You mean
there's no connectivity (did you try pinging the respective servers?),
or there was a password failure, or Evo connected but didn't
download/upload anything, or what?

You also need to consider policy in force on the net you're connected
to. Some admins, especially in corporate networks, won't allow
connections to random external servers.

poc