I've had the same problem with other network software when switching my laptop between networks so I'd guess it's a libc issue with caching lookups.
Jeff On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 23:40 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > can only think its something in libc caching the lookup result. or > we're getting an error which we should retry on but we don't know we > should. > > without being able to step through the code and recreate the problem > i'm not sure what we can do to look into this. > > i think 1.4.6 has more or less the same hostname resolution code, or > maybe the 2.0 stuff is all new - its been so long. > > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Roland Orre wrote: > > There seems to be a bug in the connection scheme in evolution. > > > > I move daily between my office and home, and almost every day > > when I'm coming to the office the connection (by clicking the > > connection symbol) to my company server fails. > > > > I've tried to look this up among known bugs, but I've not been > > able to find anything. I haven't upgraded for a while, because > > I want to wait until I'm sure this is resolved (still running 1.4.6). > > > > Some years ago I run the Mozilla imap-client instead, and that > > one did not have this kind of problem, even though I couldn't > > disconnect it either. > > > > At this precise moment I first tried: > > telnet pop.neurologic.se imap > > > > Trying 195.47.247.30... > > Connected to mail2.b-one.net. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE > > THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION] > > Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See > > COPYING for distribution information. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > > > which worked well, but when I try to connect with evolution I get: > > > > Error while 'Scanning folders in "IMAP server pop.neurologic.se"': > > Host lookup failed: unknown reason > > > > To get this to work I have to exit from evolution and restart it. > > > > Could this be a timeout problem? (but I almost never get this problem > > when I'm coming home). It would in that case be preferrable with > > an adjustable timeout. But my gut feeling is that when the connection > > is closed, i.e. clicking on the connection symbol, still some > > information about the connection is saved, causing it to fail. > > It is only this server it fails on though, not the others. > > > > Best regards > > Roland Orre > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com
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