Adam, IMAPX is as broken as IMAP. A temporary patch to suppress all errors has been uploaded to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339028 3 months ago.
Eugene. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Evolution] long outstanding evolution bug 339028 - any updates? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:56:07 -0400 On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 14:33 -0500, Eugene Kanter wrote: > 12.07.2011, 14:02, "Adam Tauno Williams" <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:31 -0500, Eugene Kanter wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339028 filed 2006-04-19 > >> 13:49:28 UTC and last updated 2011-07-11 08:39:22 UTC, status NEW. > >> Reproducible in every version including the latest one. > >> Is there any valid reason for keeping this bug in the code for over 5 > >> years? > >> As recently as about 3 months ago on this thread > >> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2011-March/msg00127.html > >> the error came up again but bug was not mentioned. > >> Thunderbird doesn't report any damaged messages in the same IMAP > >> mailbox. It reads all emails with no problems. > > This is what I call a "crap shoot". > open source list does not mean dirty language. It isn't; "crap shoot" is just an English idiom for sometimes-stuff-happens. This is one way Evo is 'broken', there are other ways in which other clients are 'broken'. > I've been using Evolution exclusively since the very first release and > have more then ten active IMAP accounts in my preferences box. > This error occurrence is very rare but I've seen it more then several > times. > Every time I must use other client to locate a suspicious message and > remove it in order to continue using Evolution. > This has nothing to do with Exchange. I've seen it happen on both > imap.gmail.com and imap.yandex.ru servers. > My point is that brain dead decision to abandon mail box processing > upon encountering a minor message formatting error is not acceptable. > The primary function of any mail client is to display all messages the > best way possible and don't lock user out of mail box if corrupted > message is encountered. I agree, my point wasn't that it is OK, only that this happens with every mail client [in my experience]. Curious, have your tried accessing the damaged mailbox with the IMAPX provider [instead of the IMAP provider]? Does it do the same thing? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
