Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.6 losing connection to IMAP server

[Rhys Johnson <rj1 westnet com au>]

Ok Evolution just lost connection with the imap server. I hit
"Send/Receive" and the receiving section of the pop-up box just sits
there trying to connect to the imap server. The sending mail smtp server
works fine.This is the error I get in the shell i was running evolution
from using CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1.

(evolution: 21167): evolution-shell-WARNING **: EvolutionActivityClient:
Unknown event from listener -- Clicked
Killed

This connection problem only arose since I upgraded my machine from
woody (the stable version of Debian Linux) to sarge (the unstable
version of Debian Linux). The upgrade was done since I was running
Evolution 1.05 and wanted to upgrade to 1.4.6 (which is only available
as a package in sarge). Ev1.05 was giving me grief. So I dont think the
connection dropping out is a networking problem. I am almost positive
there is a bug in the connection between courier-imap3.08-3 and
Evolution1.4.6-5 that causes it to disconnect.

I spoke to one guy on the courier-imap mailing list who said that he had
the same problem. He said that by upgrading to Evolution2.0 he has never
had the dropout problem again.
I am unable to upgrade to Evolution 2.0 since it is not available in
sarge.

Are there any patches that I can apply to my current version of
Evolution to fix this problem?

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:07, Not Zed wrote:
> Really depends on why the connection is dying, it just looks like
> network issues or something related.  If you run evolution from a
> terminal with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 set in the environment you'll get
> some logs of the imap traffic to stdout, but it may not show anything
> more.
>
> I don't know what woody is versus unstable, so i have no idea what
> version you were using before, 1.4.6 should be as good as any 1.4
> version is though.  Was the server upgraded too?
>
> Z
>
> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:25 +0800, Rhys Johnson wrote: 
> > hello all. my problem is as follows:
> > Evolution (1.4.6) locks up sometimes whilst trying to check for
> > new mail. The errors I get are:
> >
> > "Error while 'Scanning folders in "IMAP Server bogey.golfbox.com.au"'
> > Server unexpectedly disconnected: Unknown Error"
> >
> > and
> >
> > "Error while 'Pinging IMAP server bogey.golfbox.com.au'"
> >
> > This can happen several times a day. I usually can fix it by killing
> > evolution (killev) and restarting my imap server - courier imap.
> > It seems as though Evolution temporarily loses contact with the IMAP
> > server
> > You can see when Evolution has lost connection by the timestamp. 
> > A new daemon is started when connection is lost
> > rhys     32735  0.0  0.0  4680 1436 ?        S    13:26   0:00
> > /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
> > rhys       330  0.0  0.0  4752 1756 ?        S    13:27   0:00
> > /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
> >
> > The only thing I get from the logs is
> > Nov 11 12:05:53 bogey imaplogin: DISCONNECTED, user=graham,
> > ip=[::ffff:192.168.1.6], headers=3138, body=0, time=3376
> >
> > I am using Evolution(1.4.6-5).I am running courier-imap(3.08-3) and
> > courier-authdaemon(0.47-3) on a Debian Unstable system.  My
> > server hosts mail for 27 users using qmail(1.03) and the Maildir format.
> > This problem has only begun since i upgraded from woody. There may be
> > something wrong with the version i am running.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
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