Re: [Evolution] Semi-phantom emails on exchange account

[Peter N Spotts <pspotts alum mit edu>]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:19 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:28 -0400, Peter N Spotts wrote:
> > Yesterday, I noticed that mail-notification and Evolution's folder
> > view would signal new mail in the office folder. But when I clicked on
> > the folder to open it, the new mail failed to appear in the summary
> > window. Old mail was there. Or if I had previously dragged the old
> > mail to my "On This Computer" folder, the summary view of the exchange
> > folder would appear empty -- even though the folder view still shows
> > pending mail -- bold face and with a number. Since yesterday, the only
> > way to get new exchange mail to show up in the summary window is to
> > restart Evolution.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced this behavior, and if so, what's the fix?
> 
> Yes!  I have that exact same problem and I filed a bug about it over a
> week ago, but no one has even looked at it yet as far as I can tell.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-exchange/+bug/114934
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442098
> 
> I have no idea how to fix it, and it's really darn annoying!  It's even
> more annoying since I also have some POP mailboxes I read using Evo, so
> every time I have to restart Evo to see my new Exchange mail I have to
> retype all my POP mailbox passwords too :-/.

Thanks, although it is odd that the bug would pop up after months of
vacation. ;-)

With best regards,

Pete
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