On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:40 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:35 +0000, Art Alexion wrote: > > With Ubuntu 9.04, Kmail and Evolution both display this behavior. > The > > problem is that the MUAs start trying to retrieve mail before the > > hibernating computer re-establishes a network connection. The > reason > > you are not getting this problem with the other account may be that > > your two accounts are set for different polling intervals, and the > > non-problem account isn't hitting the server before the network is > > back up. > > The fundamental problem is there's no desktop-wide notification of > hibernate/suspend and resume. Or if there is now, we're not listening > for it. If we had such a notification it would be fairly simple to > drop > to offline mode until we get a resume notification. > > As things stand now Evolution has no idea that anything happened. The > process resumes to find all it's network sockets are suddenly closed > and > time has suddenly jumped far ahead, and it doesn't deal well with that > (unnecessary password prompts, cascading errors, etc.). > > I believe the notification issue is being worked on (I'd have to check > with some of my Red Hat colleagues), but until that's in place I'd > recommend either shutting Evolution down or placing it in offline mode > yourself before hibernating or suspending.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. Lacking a notification from gnome, kde or the OS, could evolution be made to test for a network connection and abort interval checking until it detects one, or would that cause too much of a problem when the network is normally up? -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. a...@rhd.org Philadelphia, PA 19144 267-615-3172 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
