Re: [Evolution] Yahoo! over IMAP (was: Re: Evo 3.2.2 sees itself as offline)

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 14:45 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:01 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > And I've just set up a connection to my Yahoo! account - and it's even
> > more flaky than my Gmail one - a variety of error messages such as
> > "Error while Pinging IMAP server imap.mail.yahoo.com - Server
> > unexpectedly disconnected. Connection reset by peer"
>
>       Hi,
> you've right, I just got similar warning in evolution from Yahoo!
> account (mine shows "Source stream returned no data" on ping to the
> server).

I have had that a few times :-)

>  I made a change in autoconfig for Yahoo! accounts in 3.5.2 to
> default to IMAP connection, but if it's more unstable than the previous
> POP3 default, then I'm all fine to revert that change.
>
> What do you think?

Personally, I hate POP and would much prefer IMAP.

I think one of the problems is that Evo is very quick to give up on
things and plaster a big red message across the top.  The errors are not
usually fatal and on the next refresh everything is fine.

Is there a configurable timeout/retry setting?

P.