Re: [Evolution] communication with servers has stopped.

[Brian A Anderson <BrianAAnderson q com>]

Most likely a timeout at the TCP open/connect phase.
Nothing that should require the password to be reentered,
yet most mail clients feel the need to demand the password be reentered.
And Evolution is no exception to this.

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 10:37 +0100, Thomas Prost wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 02.11.2012, 17:24 -0600 schrieb Brian A Anderson: 
> > I have seen this same symptom many a time.
> > After many days of running and successful connections to the servers,
> > all of a sudden Evolution cannot make a connection.  
> > It's only conclusion is that the password that it has, that I NEVER
> > changed is suddenly wrong.  And that I MUST reenter them immediately.
> > A quick cancel on the current op and x out of evolution.  Come back a
> > half hour later and the passwords are miraculously correct.
> >
> > This is a red flag.  My interpretation is that the connections went bad
> > because the servers are down.  
>
> Maybe the connection timed out ?
> I remember having read that Evolution's default time out is much shorter
> than the one of Outlook and I don't see a possibility to configure it.