On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:50 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote: > Hi All, > I am using evolution 1.4 on a Mandrake 9.2 system. Some of the time I > am connected via ethernet but at other times via a 802.11b net to a > 128Kbps adsl link (at home). > > When on the wlan/adsl connection evolution frequently hangs with > "pinging IMAP server ....." in the status line. This seems to take at > least 10 minutes to time out. > > Running standard pings over the link I get about a 3% Packet loss -- I > will be taking this up with the supplier. > > Quite why evolution thinks it is necessary to ping the server and why it > hangs up with such a long timeout is beyond my comprehension.
If you dont ping the server, the server will just dump you off it for being idle. It also doubles as a new mail check for the current folder. > Does anyone else have this trouble? Is there a way to shorten the > timeout on (or preferably disable) the pings. > > Some times other operations (particularly those that have sub ops like expunge) fail. > > I have seen this problem very occasionally while connected via ethernet and > somewhat more frequently while on a dialup connection -- but nothing > like as frequently as with the dsl link. > > -- > Russell Fulton /~\ The ASCII > Network Security Officer \ / Ribbon Campaign > The University of Auckland X Against HTML > New Zealand / \ Email! > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
