Re: [Evolution] IMAP access to exchange server

[Kevin Bowen <kevin ucsd edu>]

I didn't see this particular problem, but mention of general problems with 
IMAP and exchange... I don't remember where - can't find the reference now... 
I just wanted to make sure this wasn't something with a known fix before I 
submitted a bug report... I'll do that now.

thanks

On Sunday 09 February 2003 7:55 pm, Not Zed wrote:
> 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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