Right, but put yourself in the position of the user. One email client produces irritating and useless error messages at regular intervals, whereas all others work fine. I doubt any reasonable person would conclude that it was the server that was broken; they would probably just use a different email client.
I am trying not to be a helpless user here, I am quite willing to fix the problem myself. But before I do this I just want someone to agree that it would be better if evolution just showed you as being disconnected and omitted the errors (which would confuse any non- technical person anyway). If no one thinks this is a problem, then I would be wasting my time creating a fix. I would also very much appreciate it, if someone could give a bit of advice on what to change to accomplish this. I can, of course, figure it out for myself, but I suspect that it would be only a matter of a few minutes for someone who knew the codebase well to advice me, and would save me a great deal of time and mucking about. Perhaps I have emailed the wrong list and no one here is qualified to do this? Also, 10 minutes is a made up number. In fact I do not know (aside from the mail check polling interval) when evolution is and is not active IMAP-wise, so I can't say how long. I said ~10 minutes, but it may well be 30. Thanks! -Jay On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:05 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > the IMAP spec also guarentees that the server will not disconnect the > client until at LEAST 30 minutes of inactivity > > so 10 minutes == broken server > > and if it really is disconnecting after 10 minutes no matter what (even > if there is activity), then that just means the server is even more > broken. > > Jeff > > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:27 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:43:32 -0800, Jay Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is an excellent suggestion, but unfortunately that was the first > > > thing I tried. The server disconnects after ~10 minutes regardless of > > > whether or not you are idle. Thus changing the mail checking interval > > > doesn't have any effect. > > > > How many minutes did you set Evolution for the polling interval anyway? > > > > If it still disconnects even if you set Evolution to retrieve new mail > > automatically at at time lesser than 10 minutes (let's say every 5 > > minutes) or if you check it manually every 10 minutes, then the mail > > server must be broken. > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
