Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.6 losing connection to IMAP server

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

That doesn't really show the log, you have to fully quit evolution before running it.  I dunno, the log might not show anything either - its just the first starting point.

Courier has some bugs in its imap 4 rev 1 implementation, in 2.0 we hardcode to run against courier in imap 4 mode instead (more or less).  That may, or may not, be related (it probably isn't, i think it just means you get busted messages rather than hangs - but i cant remember).

There have been so many changes since 1.4, the 1.4 series is more or less eol'd, only major security problems would prompt another release for example (i.e. even if this bug you have is a bug in evolution, which it probably is, we would not fix it, not that someone else couldn't though).

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:57 +0800, Rhys Johnson wrote:
> Ok Evolution just lost connection with the imap server. I hit
> "Send/Receive" and the receiving section of the pop-up box just sits
> there trying to connect to the imap server. The sending mail smtp server
> works fine.This is the error I get in the shell i was running evolution
> from using CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1.
>
> (evolution: 21167): evolution-shell-WARNING **: EvolutionActivityClient:
> Unknown event from listener -- Clicked
> Killed
>
> This connection problem only arose since I upgraded my machine from
> woody (the stable version of Debian Linux) to sarge (the unstable
> version of Debian Linux). The upgrade was done since I was running
> Evolution 1.05 and wanted to upgrade to 1.4.6 (which is only available
> as a package in sarge). Ev1.05 was giving me grief. So I dont think the
> connection dropping out is a networking problem. I am almost positive
> there is a bug in the connection between courier-imap3.08-3 and
> Evolution1.4.6-5 that causes it to disconnect.
>
> I spoke to one guy on the courier-imap mailing list who said that he had
> the same problem. He said that by upgrading to Evolution2.0 he has never
> had the dropout problem again.
> I am unable to upgrade to Evolution 2.0 since it is not available in
> sarge.
>
> Are there any patches that I can apply to my current version of
> Evolution to fix this problem?
>
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:07, Not Zed wrote:
> > Really depends on why the connection is dying, it just looks like
> > network issues or something related.  If you run evolution from a
> > terminal with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 set in the environment you'll get
> > some logs of the imap traffic to stdout, but it may not show anything
> > more.
> > 
> > I don't know what woody is versus unstable, so i have no idea what
> > version you were using before, 1.4.6 should be as good as any 1.4
> > version is though.  Was the server upgraded too?
> > 
> > Z
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:25 +0800, Rhys Johnson wrote: 
> > > hello all. my problem is as follows:
> > > Evolution (1.4.6) locks up sometimes whilst trying to check for
> > > new mail. The errors I get are:
> > > 
> > > "Error while 'Scanning folders in "IMAP Server bogey.golfbox.com.au"'
> > > Server unexpectedly disconnected: Unknown Error"
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > "Error while 'Pinging IMAP server bogey.golfbox.com.au'"
> > > 
> > > This can happen several times a day. I usually can fix it by killing
> > > evolution (killev) and restarting my imap server - courier imap.
> > > It seems as though Evolution temporarily loses contact with the IMAP
> > > server
> > > You can see when Evolution has lost connection by the timestamp. 
> > > A new daemon is started when connection is lost
> > > rhys     32735  0.0  0.0  4680 1436 ?        S    13:26   0:00
> > > /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
> > > rhys       330  0.0  0.0  4752 1756 ?        S    13:27   0:00
> > > /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
> > > 
> > > The only thing I get from the logs is
> > > Nov 11 12:05:53 bogey imaplogin: DISCONNECTED, user=graham,
> > > ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6], headers=3138, body=0, time=3376
> > > 
> > > I am using Evolution(1.4.6-5).I am running courier-imap(3.08-3) and
> > > courier-authdaemon(0.47-3) on a Debian Unstable system.  My
> > > server hosts mail for 27 users using qmail(1.03) and the Maildir format.
> > > This problem has only begun since i upgraded from woody. There may be
> > > something wrong with the version i am running.
> > > 
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
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