Re: [Evolution] Blank From - blank Subject - ? Date

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 22:21, John J. Foster wrote:
> My server is imap.frognet.net
>
> I have been connecting to this server in this manner for about 7 months
> now with no problem. Also, wouldn't Kmail be requesting the same header
> block to populate the message-list?

nope, not necessarily.

> John
>
> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 21:58, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Is your imap server imap.web.de?
> >
> > this problem is generally a symptom of a broken IMAP server that returns
> > an empty string when we request the header block from the server (which
> > is what we use in order to populate the message-list).
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 21:56, John J. Foster wrote:
> > > Good evening,
> > > Am currently running Evolution 1.4.5 on Fedora Core 1 with both the
> > > standard Redhat kernel and a generic 2.6.1 kernel. Evolution has worked
> > > flawlessly for months, until a few evenings ago. I use both an IMAP
> > > connection (from home) and a web based interface (from work) to my ISP.
> > >
> > > I am now getting emails with blank "From" and "Subject" fields and with
> > > a "?" mark in the "Date" field via the IMAP connection in the Header
> > > pane. All email shows the correct size. The "From, Subject and Date"
> > > fields all show correctly in the Preview pane and when opening the mail.
> > > They are only blank during "Header" display via IMAP. (Headers show just
> > > fine on the web-based connection).
> > >
> > > This makes it impossible to determine what to delete off the server and
> > > what to download for further reading. I am still on a 28.8 modem
> > > connection, so I must make server-side determinations if I don't want to
> > > wait forever and download garbage.
> > >
> > > I temporarily configured Kmail and it shows the Header pane properly,
> > > but I really don't like the application.
> > >
> > > I've uninstalled and re-installed Evo via rpm - didn't help.
> > > I tried moving the evolution sudirectory and letting it be re-created -
> > > didn't help.
> > > This affects all users on this machine.
> > >
> > > Please help !
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > John J. Foster