GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 380667
no warning when offline mode is accidently enabled
Last modified: 2010-11-26 10:59:11 UTC
This has now happened the second time to me, I remember now the same happened sometime last year: All of a sudden, evolution refuses to receive any mail. The send/receive button is greyed out. I restart evolution, and now the button is back - but when i click, nothing happens. I go through the settings, re-set up all accounts, nothing. I check the exim4 logs, they seem ok. In short, after an hour wasted, I discover a litte red x at the bottom left. I click on it, and mail works again. My suggestions: - Display a warning ("switch to online mode to send or receive mails") when send/receive is attempted in offline mode - alternatively, instead of greying out the send/receive button, display the text "offline" there Other information: [forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289922]
*** Bug 591529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 151331 [details] [review] Proposed patch Patch Details: Send/Receive button is not made insensitive in offline mode. Instead, clicking on it prompts the user to switch to online mode.
Maybe displaying the warning while starting evolution might be good rather than enabling send/receive in offline mode. The warning dialog can possibly come up when, evolution started in offline mode (due to user choosing to move offline) with the network available. There were some bugs fixed for evolution remaining in offline mode due to network manager status which was fixed long back - http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=e2bf5a174aee32d888b96f04ef6e1da11f9f5f50 .
Review of attachment 151331 [details] [review]: comments mentioned above.
Updating the version. Lets get this fixed for GNOME3.
With new gerror framework in master (2.91.2), a warning will be displayed on the top of message list when evolution is in offline mode though send/receive will be inactive. I think this bug can be marked as fixed now.
I agree with Akhil.