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Bug 485801 - "evolution --online" does not work, still offline
"evolution --online" does not work, still offline
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.10.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-11 17:09 UTC by jo3
Modified: 2009-06-24 07:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description jo3 2007-10-11 17:09:34 UTC 
If the program is ever exited with work-offline selected, there is no way to change it back to start up with work-online.  This is not documented and this is not acceptable.


Distribution: Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty)
Gnome Release: 2.18.1 2007-04-10 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-10-15 23:17:53 UTC 
of course there is and it IS documented in the user documentation. you just start it with "evolution --online".
Comment 2 jo3 2007-10-17 19:22:34 UTC 
Not true.  Adding --online to the command in the main menu of ubuntu 7.04 has no effect.  Evolution simply will not start up on line.  This is not resolved, this is a bug.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2007-10-18 22:13:24 UTC 
hmm, my command here (fedora 7) to start evo 2.12 is "/home/andre/opt-gnome/bin/evolution --online" and it works perfectly after quitting evolution in offline mode...

so you have to choose "file -> work online" everytime after starting evolution? strange. i haven't heard of this problem before.
if you close evolution in offline mode, and then explicitly start evolution by opening a gnome-terminal window and entering "evolution --force-shutdown" and then "evolution --online" there, does it work?
Comment 4 jo3 2007-10-18 23:19:06 UTC 
Correct.  Regardless of how it is started, it will not ever come up on line and start receiving mail.  Every time, I either have to click File->Work Online, or click the broken pipe icon in the lower left.  Whether I start it from a command line, from the menu or from browsing to the executable and double clicking it.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2007-10-18 23:48:47 UTC 
i wonder if evolution gathers the network state from NetworkManager, perhaps there is a bug in the communication so Evolution always receives an "offline" from NetworkManager when getting started. just a wild guess though, perhaps somebody in an ubuntu forum has a better idea. :-/
Comment 6 Carsten Luedtke 2007-10-23 23:50:41 UTC 
I can confirm this. The problem is NetworkManager is running but not connected, cause not used for wired connections. Evolution asks then for the status and gets: dude we are offline - and Evolution takes this as truth. --online should override the stupid assumption of NetworkManager.

see also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447167
Comment 7 Akhil Laddha 2008-06-24 12:50:56 UTC 
Bug 518103 should help
Comment 8 Akhil Laddha 2009-05-21 11:57:13 UTC 
Could you please confirm if this bug is still happening at your end ? Please try in 2.24.x / 2.26.x and report back, thanks.
Comment 9 Akhil Laddha 2009-06-24 07:18:47 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug; however, closing due to lack of
response of the reporter, sorry. if you still see this issue with a current
release of evolution (2.26.2 or later), please reopen. thanks in advance.