how about an external online/offline cmd? so that i can offline evo just before taking the nic down?
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 19:59, Not Zed wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:07, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > > Hi. > > I wrote to the list about this about a year ago. I > > never got any real response then so I'll try it > > again. I use Evolution on my modem connected > > computer. My problem is that the online/offline > > state in Evolution doesn't reflect the real > > online/offline state of my computer. This can of > > course easily be solved by me clicking the > > online/offline button in Evolution every time i > > connect/disconnect to Internet. I have a proposal > > for a better solution though, just wanted to know > > what everybody else thinks about it. > > > > The solution is very easy. I would need a checkbox > > in the Evolution settings named something like > > "display annoying messages when no network found" > > (or maybe the negated version "silently discard > > network errors"). My idea is that if I try to send a > > mail my computer tries to connect to the smtp server > > and if it's not found it silently puts the mail in > > my outbox without telling me and when the computer > > tries to check the pop3 server for mail and it can't > > be reached it just doesn't check it. > > > > This way my Evolution could always stay in online > > mode and work anyway. Couldn't be more than at most > > ten lines of code to implement, could it? > > No its not really that easy at all. You can't just hide all errors > because you dont know which are network errors and which are something > else entirely. For example, the error messages from local mailboxes > such as 'out of disk space' are a bit more important, but currently they > just use the same error codes. > > I suggest you just learn to click offline, that is what its there for. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
