[Evolution] imap error message is annoying

[Russell Fulton]

> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:27 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:43:32 -0800, Jay Kreps <ejk@ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > That is an excellent suggestion, but unfortunately that was the first
> > > thing I tried.  The server disconnects after ~10 minutes regardless of
> > > whether or not you are idle.  Thus changing the mail checking interval
> > > doesn't have any effect.
> > 
> > How many minutes did you set Evolution for the polling interval anyway?
> > 
> > If it still disconnects even if you set Evolution to retrieve new mail
> > automatically at at time lesser than 10 minutes (let's say every 5
> > minutes) or if you check it manually every 10 minutes, then the mail
> > server must be broken.
> > 

Or you have NAT timeout or some thing else in the network which is
dropping long lived sessions.  I had this problem with my dsl router and
had to drop the check interval to lower than the NAT time out time
(which could not be changed).

Russell