From unknown Sun Jun 22 08:08:23 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#10438: Use the cellular connection Resent-From: "Neal H. Walfield" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 10438 X-GNU-PR-Package: woodchuck X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 10438@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.132578159524424 (code B ref -1); Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:02 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2012 16:39:55 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqM7-0006Lt-BE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:39:55 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqM3-0006Ll-VS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:39:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIa-0004kT-Dr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:36:21 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]:53219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIa-0004kP-CL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:36:16 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIZ-0004xS-26 for woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:36:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIT-0004jO-5G for woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:36:15 -0500 Received: from mail.dasr.de ([217.69.77.164]:56696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIS-0004ig-W9 for woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:36:09 -0500 Received: from c-24-91-125-189.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.91.125.189] helo=plato) by mail.dasr.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqIJ-0003aG-R4 for woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:35:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=plato.walfield.org) by plato with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RiqI8-0003xg-3e for woodchuck-bugs@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:35:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:35:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87ty4ajee3.wl%neal@walfield.org> From: "Neal H. Walfield" User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?Q?Goj=C5=8D?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/23.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: ::1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: neal@walfield.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:26:47 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on plato) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.17 X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) Currently, Woodchuck is conservative. It will never initiate transfers when connected to a cellular network. This makes sense if the cellular link is expensive and the user frequently has access to a WiFi network. This is not universally true. Some users have unlimited cellular allowances. Some rarely connect to WiFi. Until cellular is properly supported, these users should have the option to tell Woodchuck to treat the cellular connection as if it were WiFi. Changing murmeltier to support this is straightforward: a configuration file is needed (sqlite DB), murmeltier needs to be changed to read the configuration file and respect the setting, and a GUI is needed to allow configuring murmeltier.