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Bug 269977 - "Error while Pinging IMAP server" error dialog is useless
"Error while Pinging IMAP server" error dialog is useless
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247373
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.0.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-28 12:57 UTC by Tommi Komulainen
Modified: 2005-05-19 06:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Tommi Komulainen 2004-11-28 12:57:25 UTC 
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Evolution Error
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Error while Pinging IMAP server XYZ

Success.
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(There's also "Error while Scanning folders in ..." "Server unexpectedly
disconnected: Connection timed out." or my favorite "Server unexpectedly
disconnected: Success.")


These error dialogs seem utterly useless.  They provide no clue whatsoever
about the severity of the error.  Do I need to do something, there's no
hint about what that something might be?  And if I don't need to do
anything why show the dialog in the first place?
Comment 1 Tommi Komulainen 2005-04-27 13:28:41 UTC 
Reopening and reassigning to UI since I simply can't believe useless error
messages are something one would intentionally designed for.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-05-04 14:45:20 UTC 
in order to destroy the UI component (as discussed with jpr and dobey), changing
component to mailer.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-05-04 14:54:11 UTC 
uhm, shouldn't forget to add the UI keyword
Comment 4 Not Zed 2005-05-19 06:27:39 UTC 
this is a dup of some other one about error messages going to a notify area or
something
Comment 5 Not Zed 2005-05-19 06:46:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247373 ***