On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 16:35, Richard Zach wrote: > > The code still needs some work :-/ > > Yes. I had to use evolution over a dialup line for a few weeks, and it > wasn't the best user experience. > > 1. The "work offline" state is not persistent. If you go to "work > offline", then exit evolution, then start up again, it'll be in online > mode. That means, you can't start evolution (and work offline) without > bringing up the ppp link first. If there's no network connectivity, > evolution should perhaps go into offline mode anyway, regardless of > wwhether you were offline when you last exited or not. > > 2. I haven't figured out when this happens, but every so often, > evolution will query the server for the headers of the entire inbox > (it'll say "opening folder", "downloading header information for new > messages" etc in the status line. In the process, it loses all the > cached messages; when you go offline now you can only look at the > messages that you've opened/previewed since evolution rescanned the > folder.
the IMAP server probably changed the UIDVALIDITY tag, which means that the IMAP server has assigned brand new UIDs to each message in that particular folder. This can happen at any time. The only thing we can do is re-download all the headers. > > 3. The last (most recent) message in the folder is not avaliable > offline. Get a new message, select it so it shows in the preview pane, > then go offline. Now select another message (which is cached), then the > most recent one again and you get a "not available" error. only the INBOX is cached in 1.0.x, I think 1.2.x will do any folder(s) you choose. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
