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Bug 329712 - NM: Start with evolution --offline, it starts online
NM: Start with evolution --offline, it starts online
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.12.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Srinivasa Ragavan
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 327508
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-03 04:37 UTC by Srinivasa Ragavan
Modified: 2008-01-18 06:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Srinivasa Ragavan 2006-02-03 04:37:29 UTC 
From the command line start 'evolution --offline' it comes up asks for my IMAP password and connects to the server. Looks like NM supports has to do something with it.
Comment 1 Srinivasa Ragavan 2006-02-03 04:37:58 UTC 
Assigning to Shreyas.
Comment 2 Shreyas Srinivasan 2006-02-03 05:18:04 UTC 
First real NM bug. Phew.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2006-02-04 21:38:40 UTC 
i've seen this for weeks now. although i set evo to offline, it's still gives annoying error popups (bug 247373) about not reaching my imap server.
(whou, i know that bug number by heart. :-/ )
Comment 4 Shreyas Srinivasan 2006-02-05 04:08:27 UTC 
Andre: Well no, this bug has nothing to do with intrusive errors. This is a very 
simple scenario. If the network is up and then you use a evolution --offline then evolution switches back to online instead of starting in offline state. I dont see how this is related to the intrusive error messages.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2006-02-23 13:15:21 UTC 
no shres, it's not something else. i do get imap error popups, but evolution does not try to access my pop accounts. so to me, this is definitely the same.
anyway, for what do i have to grep in ps ax to find out if network-manager runs?
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-02-23 13:21:53 UTC 
"first real nm bug"? ha! see bug 327192. ;-)
Comment 7 André Klapper 2006-02-26 15:25:32 UTC 
hmm. ok. cannot reproduce *my issue* anymore, fine. shres you're right, thanks for the explanations at the other bug report, i really appreciate.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2006-03-20 14:58:32 UTC 
bug 333821 could be a duplicate.
Comment 9 Sebastien Bacher 2007-06-25 15:17:47 UTC 
Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/120728

"Bug behaviour: When evolution is switched to offline mode, changing NIC in some way, ie. plugging into a different network, or switching from the wired NIC to the WLAN NIC, will switch Evolution into online mode.
..."
Comment 10 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-06-26 03:07:58 UTC 
This has been staying long unnoticed. This should be fixed for 2.10.x and 2.11.x
Comment 11 Steinar Bang 2007-10-24 16:43:03 UTC 
The bug is still present in Evolution 2.12.0 in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

And it is at its most obnoxious when using the Exchange connector.  Since at best I have to kill Evolution, and all evolution sub processes, and give the domain password again when restarting Evolution.

At worst I also have to call IT support and have them unlock my Windows Domain account that Evolution manages to lock down with its (presumably suspicious) behaviour.

So the only way to use Evolution, is to shut it down before suspending the laptop and waking it up in a new network, and not start evolution until I know VPN is up.

Very cumbersome.
Comment 12 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-12-31 13:40:10 UTC 
Andre, Sure. This would be addressed now. Restoring the Severity and assigning to myself
Comment 13 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-01-18 06:54:09 UTC 
Fixed in trunk now.