Re: [Evolution] upgrade woes Part Deux

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 11:09 -0700, bg wrote:
> On Saturday I posted a query about my new 3.18.5.2 claim that it has no network
> connection. I have verification that this is an Evo problem, because my browser
> is connecting to the Net just fine, as are my iPad and iPhone, which both,
> by the way, are using the same mail server, with all the same setup choices as Evo, and they're fetching 
> and sending mail with no problem.
>
> Andre offered a workaround, which does force Evo to fetch mail, but unless I leave Evo
> running 24/7, I have to invoke that command again every time I want to run Evo.
>
> That helps somewhat, but it is *not* a fix for the problem.
>
> I am not running some idiosyncratic collection of hardware, or unusual arrangement
> of broadband or mail server. As I pointed out above, my other devices which are
> using the same exact mail settings as Evolution are connecting just fine.
> What occasioned this is the upgrade fromUbuntu 14.04 to 16.04, which apparently
> upgraded Evo to the 3.18.5.2. 
>
> I find it difficult to accept that this sort of glitch should beset a straightforward
> distro upgrade. And I can't believe that this problem is unique to my lashup;
> surely it has happened elsewhere. Which means presumably that there is a fix;
> a permanent fix, out there somewhere. N'est-ce pas?

https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/offline.html.en

poc