[Users] Keeping CM online

[Holger Berndt]

On Sa, 26.01.2013 11:48, Cliff Laine wrote:

>Thanks to Paul for the solution:
>
>>Your Claws Mail is built with Network Manager support. It will be
>>Network Manager that keeps telling Claws that it is offline/online.
>
>>To get rid of the Network Manager annoyance, quit Claws then open
>>~/.claws-mail/clawsrc in a text editor and set the option
>>'use_networkmanager' to 0.

That's not really a solution - it's a workaround. Claws Mail might not
be the only application that interprets NetworkManager's network status
reports, so if NetworkManager is lying, unexpected behaviour may
result. The solution would be to fix NetworkManager.

Holger