On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 09:52, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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.
Its also *really slow* in my experience (as soon as you get anything with attachments). > > 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. Hmm, does cancelling the connection and changing to offline mode work at all ...? > > 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. And ... lose all the cached messages. *if* that is the cause, then there isn't much we can do about it. > > 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. Yeah but thats irrelevent :) All messages you view, in any folder, should be cached. Just sounds like a bug, although it sounds a bit weird, because afaik messages are stored on disk and then viewed from there (then again maybe they're not). _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
