Hey Mark, On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:32 -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote: > Evo 2.0.1 on box-stock SuSE 9.2, configured to get mail from an IMAP > server (no local copies of mail on the server). > > Periodically, Evo will appear to be "hung" in that it will be totally > unresponsive to any keyboard/mouse input, although the system as a whole > is fine. After some time, Evo comes back and all is well. > > I noticed that when Evo is "hung", it displays a notice at the bottom > that it is trying to ping the IMAP server. When that notice goes away, > Evo works fine. > > Questions: Why does Evo need to ping the IMAP server, and can I > configure it not to do so? > > The firewall in front of the IMAP server blocks pings, so Evo isn't > getting what it wants but seems none the worse for it (aside from the > "hang" while it is waiting for the ping response that never comes).
The "Pinging IMAP server <blah>" message you get in Evolution is actually not a PING (RFC 2925). but a NOOP request to the server, just to keep the connection alive. There was an issue in 2.0.x versions of Evolution where it used to lock up when sending a NOOP to the server, This has been fixed in the later releases. Upgrading should solve this issue. FYI the current stable release of Evolution is 2.4.x Cheers, partha _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
