Re: [Evolution] Evolution and VPNs revisited.

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> I have brought this up a while back but haven't found a solution. The
> problem is that if I have Evo running and enable a VPN through
> Networkmanager (OpenVPN) Evo chokes and is not able to get mail. It
> tries to get from all accounts but only hangs there and I have to kill
> all the connections within Evo and then Evo itself. When I reopen Evo it
> connects and downloads mail on the VPN without any problems (this mail
> is sent over the VPN). Other e-mail clients like Thunderbird and Claws
> doesn't have this problem with VPNs. Why is it that Evo doesn't seem
> able to use a VPN if open at the time the VPN is activated? 

Presumably because Evo holds open the TCP socket connection and when you
start the VPN it all gets confused.  I suppose the correct thing that
Evo should do is listen for DBUS (or whatever) network events and drop
and reform the connection when necessary.

Rather than killing all the connections I find that clicking Evo offline
then back on again works OK as that forces it to close all the
connections.

P.