Re: [Evolution] Occasionally losing outbound smtp mail

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Whatever the problem is/was, it can no longer happen in 1.1.1 due to a
different sending strategy.

Jeff

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 14:04, Tom Janofsky wrote:
> Evolution 1.0.8
> Mandrake 8.0 i586
>
> I'll open a bug for this if you think it will be any help, basically I'm
> wondering if anyone has seen a similar problem in the past.
>
> For probably the sixth time in the past year or so, I lost a number of
> outbound emails that were (I'm guessing) in the process of being sent,
> but ended up neither in the recipients box, the Outbox, or my Sent
> folder.
>
> I noticed this morning that the status bar (?) where it normally says
> 'Fetching Mail...' when doing send/rcv was split in two, the left said
> Sending 'Message 1' and the right said Sending 'Message 2'.  When I
> would hit Send/Receive, messages would download, and Sending would say
> stmp and complete.  Did this a number of times.
>
> When I went to shut down evo, the "Exiting evolution" message box would
> stay up [This has been something I've noticed each time].  
>
> I did notice that netstat said I still had an ESTABLISHED smtp
> connection to my server.  I waited for 20 minutes, nothing.  I stopped
> the network for 10 minutes, then brought it back up, nothing.  Finally
> ran killev, which is where I ultimately end up every time this problem
> happens, and all queued messages are lost when I restart.
>
> Any ideas?  Has anyone else seen this?  
>
> Is there anyplace that these exist as files under ~/evolution when
> they're at that stage so if it happens again I can at least save the
> text of the messages?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --tom
>
>
>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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