Re: [Evolution] Evolution vs Evolution

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

le jeu 29-11-2001 à 14:28, Ross Burton a écrit :
> On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 10:23, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > I have 2 Evo (on different computers) running against the same IMAP
> > server (Debian potato's stock imapd). It seems they compete for the IMAP
> > connection, 'cause I often have a little window which says "unable to
> > fetch message xxx: broken pipe".
> >
> > Now, the problem is that sometimes, when Evo tries to reconnect, the
> > message view is messed up:
> > - if I was reading INBOX and stays in INBOX, each message is duplicated
> > (in the view, not really in the server)
> > - if I change to another IMAP folder during the reconnection, the INBOX
> > view takes place instead of the other folder. (Say my other folder is
> > called "Lists", it displays INBOX's contents. And INBOX doesn't displays
> > anything).
> >
> > Is this a bug in Evo, or perhaps in my IMAP server (I doubt)
>
> Its the IMAP server.  imapd is the University of Washington IMAP server
> which doesn't like multiple connections.  I believe if there are
> multiple simultaneous connections it will drop the original connection. 
> The behaviour however is weird, I see it all of the time at work (RH62
> server, with Evo and OE as clients) but my boss never sees it at home
> (imapd on Solaris).  Maybe its a file locking issue which doesn't appear
> on Solaris builds.

The "broken pipe" is certainly an IMAP issue, I agree.
But the part about duplicate mails is probably not. I think it's an Evo
bug, and that's what I'm interested about.

        Xav