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Bug 624738 - One should be able to force evolution to online mode
One should be able to force evolution to online mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 624701
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
2.30.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-19 14:03 UTC by Olivier Berger
Modified: 2010-10-12 19:07 UTC
See Also:
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Description Olivier Berger 2010-07-19 14:03:02 UTC 
When NM instructs evolution that the machine is offline, there's no longer any way to force it to stay in "online" mode.

This used to work but stopped working recently (before 2.30.2 where it doesn't work anymore). Now all online switching menus or icons are greyed-out and inactive.

This is particularly important for fetching local spool mail, as the send/receive icon is greyed out/inactive when in offline mode.
Comment 1 Olivier Berger 2010-07-19 14:03:48 UTC 
See similar reports in Debian at : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549451
Comment 2 André Klapper 2010-07-19 14:36:56 UTC 
Start evolution with --online ?
Comment 3 Olivier Berger 2010-07-19 15:58:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Start evolution with --online ?

Please, André, it's nice to try and help, but could you even try to reproduce the bug before closing (or reading the many reports I pointed to... not all these users are dummies, I guess) ?

I *did* try evolution --online, and all I get is :

evolution-shell-Message: Network disconnected.  Forced offline.

without much more success.

Reopening then.

Thanks in advance.
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2010-08-12 14:55:17 UTC 
I think a better solution is to just leave Send / Receive enabled if there are local accounts present.  That may require per-account online/offline status though, but we want that anyway.
Comment 5 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA 2010-10-12 18:55:04 UTC 
Any idea when will we have a solution?
Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2010-10-12 19:07:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624701 ***