Re: [Evolution] reconnect

[Berend De Schouwer <berend de schouwer gmail com>]

On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 17:34 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > my evo 3.22.6 on ubuntu 17.04 quite often does not reconnect after
> > sleep. And - somehow related - when I do not log into my system
> > immediately after boot, the calendar will not connect to the
> > server.
>
> (Disclaimer - this is from vague memory, someone else with a deeper
> knowledge will probably tell me I'm wrong!)
>
> The connection/reconnect is controlled by DBUS signals (I think) and
> that relies on something spotting that the network has dropped and
> come
> back up again and initiating those signals. Usually that is
> NetworkManager, but it might be different on Ubuntu.
>
> All I know is that Evo on Fedora reliably reconnects and retrieves
> mail
> after a sleep.

Not for me.  Fedora 26, evolution-3.24.5-1.fc26.x86_64.  I think it's
network dependent.

If you have more than one account, you have to reconnect multiple
times.  Sometimes some accounts reconnect after sleep and others don't.

It's a "sometimes", "often", "infrequently", "random" bug.  Sorry.