On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:14 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > PS "Works" is a relative term here. "Mostly works" is closer to the > > > > truth because Evo occasionally loses contact with Gmail and has to > > > be > > > > restarted to get it back. I don't know if this is an Evo problem or > > > a > > > > Gmail one. > > > > > > I don't have the problem using Evo with any other of my IMAP sources, > > > so > > > I'm guessing it's Gmail related. > > > > I tend to agree. I just wish I could figure out what to do about it > > since it's pretty annoying. I have to restart Evo several times a day > > because of this (I normally leave it running permanently). > > I suspect but have not yet proved to myself that 'your' server moves and > the connection fails because the google box is different. Given the size > of the google farm and the numerous servers and gateways and network > magic that 'your' server moves and the connection fails because the > google box is different. Some NAT tricks come to mind that make this possible > but very hard to track from this side of the gateway. > > I often see gmail connections die even with 'mutt' and have started to > sync my mail box prior to a reply. Often after a well considered email > (=lots of time editing) I find that my connection to the mailbox is gone. You may find this interesting: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.mutt/browse_thread/thread/d24f6f01cc5a3817 Executive summary: for Mutt, reduce imap_keepalive to under 10 minutes. For Evolution I don't know what the equivalent is, but I've set the "check for new mail" timeout to 5 minutes to see what happens. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
