On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 10:20 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If this is happening regularly, you may have a configuration issue with > NetworkManager under Fedora. Basically, if NM isn't managing your > connection it thinks you are offline and Evo believes it, even if you > are really online. The way to fix it is either a) don't use NM, or b) > configure NM to manage the connection (run system-config-network, click > on the Edit tab for the connection, then tick the "Controlled by > NetworkManager" box).
There's also the problem of Evolution not remembering whether you went offline voluntarily or not. It always assumes voluntarily. So, for example, say you lose your wireless connection. Evolution goes offline and then you exit. Later your wireless comes back, you restart Evolution and it comes up in offline mode because it assumes you -chose- that mode before you exited last. This confuses a lot of users. The correct behavior is to remember whether you were forced offline, and if so check NM's connection status and set the online mode appropriately on the next restart. Offline mode needs to be more prominently displayed in the UI too, but that's a different issue. Matthew Barnes
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