no send/receive in evolution

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:01 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:34:56 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 
> There was a power outage in my area and I do have power 
> backup for my pcs, but the router is not plugged into the ups. Before I 
> turned the pc off, NM must have forced evolution offline. I didn't know NM 
> had such powers. All is well now, thanks!

I think the applications test periodically to see if they are online.
If I'm wrong, then what happens is NM notifies a service (dbus) that
you've gone offline and the apps either poll that or receive
notification from it.

Corrections welcome from knowledgeable respondents.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs