On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 19:56 +1000, Alex McConnell wrote:
> Ever since installing Ubuntu 15.04 I have had a combination of
> problems with Evolution

Means nothing - please use Evolution version numbers, not distro
version numbers.

> 
> Evolution seems to stall part through a pop download from Gmail.  I
> have a number of pop accounts set up in Evolution, two of which are
> Gmail but it alsways seems to be the more heavily trafficed one which
> causes the problem.

The solution is in the archives

Edit -> Preferences -> [select account] -> Edit -> Receiving options

and reduce the number of concurrent connections to '1'.

Gmail aggressively throttles connections that it thinks are hitting it
too hard - it interprets more than one concurrent connection as being
too much.


> After it stalls, I have to use xkill to kill Evolution. 

Use 'evolution --force-shutdown' from a command line.


> I have updated Evolution to 3.16.0 from the ppa to see if that helps
> but the behaviour seems to be unchanged.

3.16.5 is the most recent version.

P.
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