Evolution doesn't remember online/offline mode in Feisty

Thank you for your bug. That doesn't look like a duplicate, you manage your network using network-manager. Not sure that's a bug, using the corresponding plugin you make evolution react to the network changes, if you don't want this behaviour maybe you should just not use the option then?

I don't understand. What option shouldn't I use?

Looks like there is no option to not use network-manager in fact, so maybe simply not a bug, it detects when you get online again using network-manager, why do you consider it wrong?

Why I consider this behaviour wrong: When I set a program offline, be it Evolution, Gnus, Opera, or any other network application, it means "go offline and stay that way because I know better than you when it's time to switch you online again".

If you look at bug #120730 you will see that Evolution gets terribly confused if it's switched online, before it can connect to the server, and the only way to unconfuse it is to kill it, including all server processes, open a VPNC connection, and start it again.

This gets tedious if I just wish to switch from wired LAN to WLAN in my house, without Evolution going online at all. I want it to run, and run in offline mode, so that I can read cached email messages. I don't want it to go online, be confused, have to be killed, open a VPNC connection, start Evolution, switch it offline, close the VPNC connection, just to be able to read the cached email again.

And in any case, this is new behaviour with the Evolution distributed with Feisty. The Evolution distributed with both Breezy and Dapper, stayed offline until I switched it online. I used network-manager with Dapper, and it didn't affect Evolution at all (nor should it).

Why shouldn't it? The integration with network-manager makes the softwares switch to offline mode when you disconnected and switch online when the network is working again which is really handy and makes sense. If you force manually a mode it should be respected though which is the bug

I have exactly the same issue. This is actually making evolution less stable than it used to be in Edgy (and Dapper).

As soon as I connect to a network, evolution tries to sync with Exchange. However it will take me some time to set up the VPN. By the time the VPN comes up, Evolution is already trying to connect and it will hang until it is killed. I've tried to wait to see if it recovers, but even after an hour it still hangs.

This is exactly why I used the "--offline" when I start Evolution, but that seems to be ignored when the network comes online.

I think that if "--offline" is specified, it should not try to change things automatically when network connect / disconnect.

The bug is similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329712 upstream then

This has been fixed upstream, thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.21.90-0ubuntu1

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evolution (2.21.90-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    New in 2.21.90:
    - Improved spam filtering and new preferences UI for
      configuring spam filtering
    Bug Fixes:
    - #324604: Ensure the print of the email
      is transformed from RFC822 or RFC2047
    - #329712: Add a new state to maintian forced offline (LP: #120728)
    - #333695: Print attendee name instead of email address if available
    - #337046: Have a ticking filename for attachment,
      if the mime doesn't carry it
    - #339156: Translation issues
    - #355864: Critical Crash warning while unchecking web calendar
    - #371011: Insert a new paragraph for signature
    - #391408: Fix contact minicards for RTL languages
    - #395939: Memory leak fix
    - #402487: Memory leak fix
    - #405777: Fix a crash when previewing mails
    - #426159: Allow users to snooze for 1+ hour 0 minutes
    - #467581: Don't cancel all threads for a vfolder based search
    - #475781: Fix memory leaks
    - #503327,503678: Return GByteArray instead of gchar*
    - #503551: Fix a crash when trying to delete unselected contact
    - #504062: Fix message list sorting
    - #507564: Fix contact view for RTL languages.
    - #509124: Check result of build_message
    - #509509: Make the status bar height as large as the task bar to eliminate
      "bouncing" when navigating the main menu
    - #509697: Ensure search folders are running before calling
      anything from this
    - #509741: Fix a crash that occurs when prompted to accept a certificate
    - #509879: Drop code to clear memo preview every 60 seconds (LP: #182805)
    - #510409: Free memory before assigning NULL
    - #511094: Set proper foreground color based on focused/non-focused canvas
    - #511105: Free allocated memory properly
    - #511232: Fixed typo Uknown -> Unknown
    - #511488: Ensure vfolder is running
    - #512020: Imposible to remove categories of weather
    Other Contributors:
    - Windows build fixes
    - Message list cairo drawing
    - Added localized screenshots
    - libsoup updates
  * debian/control:
    - updated the requirements

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:53:19 +0100

> This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.21.90-0ubuntu1
> ---------------
> evolution (2.21.90-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

Will it be possible to get this fix into the edgy evolution as well?

Since my experience with moving from 6.06 to 7.04 was rather unpleasant,
I'm planning to stay with 7.10 until a new LTS release appears.

it's not likely to be fixed in edgy, there has not been a lot of user request for that, backporting is quite some work and we have limited ressources to work on those