Re: [Evolution] Evolution pinging IMAP gmail

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 11:57 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 12:51 +0100, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:
> > Evo still ping to the server and sometimes it hangs for minutes.
> > I can't understand why, but that stop a lot of other activities (even
> > the retrieve of messages from a local imap server).
>
> Not sure if this is relevant to your issue, but I rewrote the IMAP
> "pinging" or keep-alive behavior for 3.12.
>
> In 3.10 and all previous versions I've used, for some historical reason
> lost to the ages, Evolution itself pinged the server based on a simple
> timeout with no regard for other IMAP commands.
>
> In 3.12, the IMAP backend itself will keep the connection alive either
> by issuing a NOOP command or restarting an ongoing IDLE command, but
> only does so X minutes after the most recent command issued.
>
> So you won't see "Pinging blah server" operations interfering with
> reading messages or whatever else you're doing anymore.

That's good, but will it fix the occasional hangs that still crop up
when Evo appears to wait indefinitely for a server response? This has
been a problem for as long as I care to remember and is now a lot less
frequent than it used to be, but AFAIK it hasn't entirely gone away.

poc