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.
