On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 11:41 -0200, Lailah wrote: > El lun, 12-12-2011 a las 09:32 -0500, Terry A. Haimann escribió: > > I am using Evolution on a Mint laptop. Generally it works fine. But > > occasionally I have no wireless signal available and therefore I use my > > Droid phone as a modem. I can do everything but ping while connected > > using this method. Evolution will not send or receive when I am > > connected this way since it doesn't think there is a valid connection. > It happens to me too but with wi-fi connection. If I close Evolution > and open it again y it works, but I can't write a message and send it > because it tells me that it is not connected in despite the fact that > IT IS connected and receiving mails. > I am on Evolution 3.6, Mate Desktop, Fedora 18. > Is weird... That doesn't sound that weird. *Sending* and *Receiving* are two entirely different operations. Receiving is POP/IMAP [and rarely blocked by firewalls], sending is SMTP [and almost always blocked by firewalls]. I believe if you run Evolution as "evolution --force-online" then Evolution will 'ignore' the network state provided by the NetworkManager session service and just 'assume' that it has a network connection. If you run "evolution --help" you can see the various run options. Verizon certainly does block SMTP. Hot-spotting through a phone generally stinks, they do not really provide you an ISP-like connection, it is more of an ISP-lite connection. ["lite" being a synonym for "crappy"].
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