[Evolution] Bug#422800: Same here, also with dovecot

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> I have seen similar behavior where attempted moving of messages ends
> up with message being deleted (or moved to trash) at the source folder
> but never ends up at the target folder. There may be various reasons
> for that, but any general failure on the target side (think: pull the
> plug of the target mailserver) would give this, I think. As long as
> Evolution doesn't have proper transaction support for moving email,
> this will be more or less a problem. With proper error messages and a
> message instance in the trash, the user can cover up for the problem.

Agreed. However, I am connected to my IMAP server over a wired LAN. 
Also, dovecot does log prematurely closed connections, but no such 
events appeared in the logs for these cases.

> I will therefore ask you to describe scenarios you have where (a) the
> message doesn't end up i trash, or (b) no error message is shown. Try
> to make it as easy as possible to reproduce the problem.

No error message was ever shown. In the case where I attempted to move a 
message, it did end up in trash. In the case where I sent a message, no 
copy was preserved anywhere (except in the recipient's mailbox).

It is my impression that the original submitter also saw no error 
messages, but I may be mistaken.

I have just switched to IceDove for my day-to-day email tasks, but I 
will try to set up a dummy account using Evolution to see if I can 
reliably make the problem appear.

Regards,
Matijs van Zuijlen.