Evolution and Gmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 21:27 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:36:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:14 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:49 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > > > PS "Works" is a relative term here. "Mostly works" is closer to the
> > > > > > truth because Evo occasionally loses contact with Gmail and has to
> .......
> > > I often see gmail connections die even with 'mutt' and have started to
> > > sync my mail box prior to a reply.  Often after a well considered email
> > > (=lots of time editing) I find that my connection to the mailbox is gone.
> > 
> > You may find this interesting:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.mutt/browse_thread/thread/d24f6f01cc5a3817
> > 
> > Executive summary: for Mutt, reduce imap_keepalive to under 10 minutes.
> > For Evolution I don't know what the equivalent is, but I've set the
> > "check for new mail" timeout to 5 minutes to see what happens.
> 
> Thanks the mutt param change seems to help. 
>   so many knobs and so little time....  ;-)

Yes, since I changed the Evolution timeout it seems to be behaving
better, touch wood.

poc