[Evolution] Bug#384109: evolution: sometimes loses mail when receiving from local mbox

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri May 15 06:12:01 UTC 2009


On mar, 2006-08-22 at 00:13 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> 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.)

It seems you bug was forwarded upstream, in 2007, but you didn't get any
of the questions upstream asked you (presumably you weren't even aware
of them) and so they just closed the bug as obsolete.

Could you tell us if it's still present in evolution 2.26.1 and maybe
add comment on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436239

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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