fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 09:16 -0430, skrev Patrick O'Callaghan: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:52 +0200, Kenn Thyrsted wrote: > > fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 16:39 +0930, skrev Tim: > > > If your IM client can't connect to its server, it's > > > probably offline. Contrariwise, if your mail client can connect to > > > its > > > mail server, then that's all it needs to know. It doesn't matter > > > whether internet access is there, as well. It just needs access to > > > what > > > it needs to use (e.g. your mailserver could be local). > > > > I am using a local mailserver. > > All i have to do is to click on the connector-icon at the lower left, > > thus telling Evolution to connect. > > Which is *really* annoying when you have set the Prefs to "start up > online" and Evo thinks it's offline because NM is broken. > > poc > And not only that; AutoUpdater notifies you that the system isn't receiving any updates due to lack of network connectivity.- Again because NM is broken. And Pidgin is 100years to start, but even when there is connection, it still says "waiting for network connection" It's very annoying. Kenn
