[Users] install "incomplete mailbox" failure (continued)

[Paul]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:07:45 +0100
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote: 

>   Is it using standard ports? Otherwise you should add :nnn after
> server name, where nnn is the port number the IMAP server uses.
>   Same applies for outgoing server, in case it's needed.

The port can, of course, be set on the Advanced page of the
preferences.

> >   If I click on the folder and click "Rebuild folder tree"
> > then click on "continue?" nothing seems to happen.
> > 
> >   If I then go to "Tools" and "Network Log," there is
> > the one line
> > 
> >    Network Manager: network is offline.  
>  
>   Yep, that's the probable cause of all of what you're describing.
> NM was not very reliable, and in fact I stopped to use it
> completely. See http://bugs.debian.org/661334 for example.
> 
>   Click the little blue icon on the left of the account selector at
> the bottom right corner of the screen to put it online, then try
> rebuilding folder tree.

There's the hidden pref, 'use_networkmanager', which could be set to 0
also.

with regards

Paul


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