On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 11:50, 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.
pretty standard for network apps... > > 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. it doesn't ping the server, it sends a IMAP NOOP command which is supposed to prevent the server from closing the connection (lets the server know we are still there). It also tells us of updates. > > Does anyone else have this trouble? Is there a way to shorten the > timeout on (or preferably disable) the pings. nope and nope. well, you can press the Stop button in the toolbar - that should force a disconnect (there's a few code paths where that doesn't work, but for the most part it should) > > Some times other operations (particularly those that have sub ops like expunge) fail. sounds like your network is flaky and/or your imap server :-( > > 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. *shrug* Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
