I know it's probably no consolation to you but I was experiencing the same issues and was concerned about the fact that it never seemed to sync data locally like it said it should. I tried all sorts of different hacks and attempts to get it working. The only thing that worked was purging evolution AND the purging the hard drive of all config and data files. Only then when I reinstalled did evolution function flawlessly. That being said it was a pain having to download multiple gigabytes of emails again from the imap server. It's not really a workaround but figured someone else might benefit from it if they were also at the end of their tether like I was with this issue.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069775 Title: evolution locks up Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I upgraded to 12.10 the 19th, now every day randomly evolution will lock up and become unusable -- unable to close through the x button or pkill I have to get its pid and kill -9 it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 22 08:04:06 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1069775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp