On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 21:56, John J. Foster wrote: > Good evening, > > Am currently running Evolution 1.4.5 on Fedora Core 1 with both the > standard Redhat kernel and a generic 2.6.1 kernel. Evolution has worked > flawlessly for months, until a few evenings ago. I use both an IMAP > connection (from home) and a web based interface (from work) to my ISP. > > I am now getting emails with blank "From" and "Subject" fields and with > a "?" mark in the "Date" field via the IMAP connection in the Header > pane. All email shows the correct size. The "From, Subject and Date" > fields all show correctly in the Preview pane and when opening the mail. > They are only blank during "Header" display via IMAP. (Headers show just > fine on the web-based connection). > > This makes it impossible to determine what to delete off the server and > what to download for further reading. I am still on a 28.8 modem > connection, so I must make server-side determinations if I don't want to > wait forever and download garbage. > > I temporarily configured Kmail and it shows the Header pane properly, > but I really don't like the application. > > I've uninstalled and re-installed Evo via rpm - didn't help. > I tried moving the evolution sudirectory and letting it be re-created - > didn't help. > This affects all users on this machine. > > Please help ! > > Thanks, > John J. Foster
This has been solved. My ISP had changed their IMAP server to BincIMAP v1.2.5. This was a known problem with that version, but, after I contacted the developer, found there was a patch available. The ISP applied it and now all is right in email land. Thanks for all you help. John -- pgp/gnupg public key is available at a newsstand near you http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF0CD2D0E
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