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evolution PIM does not reliably reconnect after suspend

Bug #1687863 reported by Wolf on 2017-05-03

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After resume from suspend, evolution PIM will remain "offline" on my desktop (My system: ubuntu 16.10, gnome desktop) in about half of the occurencies. Switching it "online" manually works. The machine itself reconnects to the web without any trouble.

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Wolf (drechsel) on 2017-06-08

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Wolf (drechsel) wrote on 2017-09-14:

Still the case with zesty.

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Wolf (drechsel) wrote on 2017-09-19:

Somehow related:
When booting the system, if I do not log in immediately, I get a
"Failed to lookup credentials: Failed to get password from GOA: timeout" message.

I'd like a auto-reconnect feature at evolution. It could be configurable, in the case of timeout it could - according to user's settings
- either keep trying
- or prompt to the user "what shall I do"
- or just throw an error message

There are some somehow related bug reports, eg
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46626
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259434

but I guess, a cheap, but effective hack would be to make evolution just a little more tolerant against net connection loss by trying to autoconnect more patiently.