Re: [Evolution] IMAP access to exchange server

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:30, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Looking through the support resources on the Ximian website, I see mention of 
> problems when using IMAP to access mail on an exchange server.... according 
> to what I've read, these problems were resolved in 1.2.1. Well I'm still 

Where did you read this?  I see no mention of it in the release notes.

I did a search of open bugs and found nothing that appeared to match
this problem, perhaps it is a new bug in exchange we need to work
around, or something that exposes more bugs evolution's imap
implementation.

> Any ideas? (other than purchase a connector license? I am considering doing 
> that, as I'd like to have access to my contacts and tasks as well, however 
> this bugginess is not encouraging to spend the $70).

As a start, I would suggest opening a bug on bugzilla.ximian.com and
including the output of running:

CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution-mail

in a terminal before starting evolution (and then run evolution). 
(check the log for certain sensitive data), if its looping there should
be something reasonbly obvious that is causing it to loop.



> having problems, in 1.2.1 initially, just upgraded to 1.2.2 and no change. 
> Specifically the problem I'm having is when I try to view the contents of my 
> root 'INBOX' folder, it goes into an infinite loop of "Fetching summary 
> information for new messages" and "Scanning for changed messages". All other 
> sub folders work fine, just 'INBOX' does this. It correctly displays the 
> number of new messages in 'INBOX' after the first time through the loop, but 
> then keeps on going, never displaying anything. Once it's gotten into this 
> loop, I can't get any new data out of any other folder, as it is monopolizing 
> communication with the server... however if I close evolution (sometimes 
> having to do a killev to get it to die), start back up and avoid ever 
> attempting to list INBOX, everything else works fine. Unfortunately I have a 
> lot of important mail in INBOX.

> kevin ucsd edu
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