[Evolution] Bug#384109: evolution: sometimes loses mail when
receiving from local mbox
Csillag Kristof
fenwick at freemail.hu
Mon Aug 21 22:13:05 UTC 2006
Package: evolution
Version: 2.6.3-1
Severity: important
This is something that have occured several times now.
For the first few times, I thought that I must be mistaken,
but now I am sure:
When I press the send/receive button in Evolution, the messages
fetched from the local /var/mail/<username> mbox file sometimes
disappear altogether.
I am not sure how to reproduce this, but i am pretty sure it
DOES happen.
I usually have a terminal running "watch from", so I can see the mails
waiting in my mbox. When I press the receive button in evolution,
it takes the mails, and begins to sort them out. (I have a long list
of rules, so it takes a while to do so.)
But sometimes, maybe once or twice in a month, when I press the button,
the messages just disappear from the mbox, but they are not delivered.
I am sure they disappear, because I can track it the "watch from"
terminal. I am sure they are not delivered, because the status/progress
window does not come up. (And (of course) the mails end up missing.)
Last time I have looked up some of the mail addresses (I remembered
seeing in the "watch from" terminal) in the exim log; it's clear that
they got delivered into my system mailbox. But it's also clear that
evolution does not have them. (I grepped through not just my inbox, but
my whole evolution dir, and the mail is definitly not there.)
* * *
What the hell is happening? How can I help you debugging this?
(If this goes on, I will have to stop using evolution, because
I can not afford losing potentially important mail.)
Best wishes:
Kristof Csillag
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=hu_HU, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii dbus 0.62-4 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii evolution-common 2.6.3-1 architecture independent
files for
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-1 evolution database backend
server
ii gconf2 2.14.0-4 GNOME configuration
database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gtkhtml3.8 3.10.3-1 HTML rendering/editing
library - b
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of
SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.12-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.12-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.12-1 Avahi glib integration
library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-4 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-2 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-1 The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii libcamel1.2-8 1.6.3-1 The Evolution MIME message
handlin
ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-5 1.6.3-1 Client library for
evolution addre
ii libecal1.2-6 1.6.3-1 Client library for
evolution calen
ii libedataserver1.2-7 1.6.3-1 Utility library for
evolution data
ii libedataserverui1.2-6 1.6.3-1 GUI utility library for
evolution
ii libegroupwise1.2-10 1.6.3-1 Client library for
accessing group
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon -
Shared
ii libexchange-storage1.2-1 1.6.3-1 Backend library for
evolution cale
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration
library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-4 GNOME configuration
database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-3 LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-2 library to load .glade
files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C
routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services
library
ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.12-1.6+b1 Support libraries for
gnome-pilot
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-3 The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented
display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-6 The GNOME 2.2 print
architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-4 GNOME 2.2 print
architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-1 GNOME virtual file-system
(runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.4.2-1 the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error
values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-1 The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.10.3-1 HTML rendering/editing
library - r
ii libhal1 0.5.7.1-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer
- share
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libnm-glib0 0.6.4-1 network management
framework (GLib
ii libnotify1 0.4.0-1 sends desktop notifications
to a n
ii libnspr4-0d 1.8.0.5-1 NetScape Portable Runtime
Library
ii libnss3-0d 1.8.0.5-1 Network Security Service
libraries
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-2 Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii libpisock8 0.11.8-24 Library for communicating
with a P
ii libpisync0 0.11.8-24 Synchronization library for
PalmOS
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management
library
ii libsoup2.2-8 2.2.96-1 an HTTP library
implementation in
ii libtasn1-3 0.3.5-2 Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes'
extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension
library
ii libxml2 2.6.26.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension
client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library -
runtime
Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii evolution-plugins 2.6.3-1 standard plugins for
Evolution
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.14.3-1 Common files for GNOME 2
desktop a
ii gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.12-2 conduits for gnome-pilot
ii spamassassin 3.1.4-1 Perl-based spam filter
using text
ii yelp 2.14.3-1 Help browser for GNOME 2
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Csillag Kristof <fenwick at freemail.hu>
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