Hi Jeff, First off, thanks for your helpful response. For some reason I never got a copy your reply from the list so I got this from the archive.
Thanks to others too who made helpful suggestions! OK so I now understand what evo means by ping -- I agree that calling it a noop will be just as confusing to most users. Heart beat is another common term for such behaviour but again most users won't have a clue. If ximian do decide to change the string I suggest a purely functional description e.g. "waiting for response from server". > nope and nope. That's what I really wanted to know -- I'll focus my efforts on the network. > 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) THanks for that! In (much) older versions of evo the stop button often did not work and I got into the habit of ignoring it. This is a useful work around while I sort out the network problems. Hmmmm... after interrupting a 'ping' I now get a message box "Error while 'retrieving message <random string>': no such file or directory" when ever I try and access a message. When I try and change folder I get "Error while storing folder '<name>': Error storing '<name>@<server>:INBOX': SUCCESS" At least I can (I hope) shut evo down gracefully and restart without having to either wait for timeout or kill processes. Cheers, Russell -- 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
