Evolution won't work over bridge?!?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 10:26 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> well, evolution gets the online/offline info from network-manager,
> assuming you did not create your bridge device with NM it will simply
> not know about its existence ... 
> [...]
> so i'd rather call that a network-manager bug (it should be possible
> to detect statically enabled devices that are in use even if it does
> not manage them) ...

Fair enough. Network Manager should distinguish between a known state
and "not managed", though this would presumably change the API. Or make
it a configurable per-interface item in Network Manager: "Show
unmanaged as up? Y/N"

But I still think that the offline/online switch in Evolution should
not require an environment variable to control (or not ONLY an
environment variable).

It should be a checkbox in the preferences, e.g. "Force online status?
Y/N". At the moment it is asymmetrical - you can go offline even when
actually online, but you can't go online even when actually offline :-)

Regards, K.

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