Re: [Evolution] IMPAX RECEIVING PROBLEMS

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 08:36 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 21:47 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I even considered filing an RFE about it, suggesting there should be
> > an option to just force-close an account without waiting (I don't
> > remember if I ever got round to it).
>
>         Hi,
> I do not recall seeing anything like that. I suppose you didn't see it
> for some time now, did you? You can force disconnect by using
> File->Work offline, and once it's fully offline (the plug at the
> bottom-left part, in the status bar, is unplagged and no other
> operations are showing in the status bar) use File->Work Online to
> reconnect all the accounts. Whether it'll have the same effect as
> quitting Evolution and starting it again I do not know. More
> interesting would be to know the reason for the slowness. Would there
> be any memory leaks involved? Who knows.

Yes, I haven't seen it in a long time so rather forgot about it. I knew
about the Offline/Online toggle of course, but can't remember right now
if it worked as well as restarting Evo. If I can find something in the
archives I'll post it here. I'm almost certain I did mention it on the
list a long time ago, probably for Evo 2.x

> In any case, the UI itself is not supposed to be locked, all the
> network operations are ran in their own threads, not in the main/UI
> thread, thus for example the window repaints when other window is moved
> above it.

As I recall the UI never locked. Indeed one of the symptoms was that I
would switch folders, see that the new folder was taking an age to
refresh, switch again, see the same thing again, etc., all the while
seeing a growing list of pending operations on the status pane. My
question was always "why doesn't Evo just have a short timeout on the
folder I'm not looking at and prioritise the one I *am* looking at? It
can't rely on folder status being completely in synch anyway and is
going to check again if I come back to that folder, so it shouldn't
insist to the detriment of the user experience."

poc