Re: [Evolution] Race condition?

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:42 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> It just sounds like the message was moved and deleted.

Which is what I was trying to say.

> But for whatever reason the other cliens aren't honouring the deleted
> flag, or it hasn't been sent yet.

No other clients are involved, just Evo, and only a single instance of
Evo is running. I merely wanted to point out that other clients (which I
use occasionally but not at the same time as Evo) never exhibit this
problem, despite using the same mailserver, account setup, and filtering
rules.

poc

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:49 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:04 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:27 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > When a new message arrives it often shows up in my Inbox and then
> > > > quickly disappears after being grabbed by an input filter and refiled
> > > > somewhere else.
> > > >
> > > > This is confusing to say the least, but may also be related to a
> > > > phenomenon several people have remarked on: the same message often
> > > > appears both in Inbox and in another folder. I mean the *exact same
> > > > message*, not a duplicate.
> > >
> > > what's that supposed to mean? if it's in 2 folders, how is it not a
> > > duplicate?
> >
> > What I mean is that it's not a case of the same message being sent twice
> > to a mailing list, or once to a list and once to my address. It was sent
> > once, was delivered once by the mail server, and is now present in two
> > places, I'm guessing because Evo copied it and didn't delete the
> > original.
> >
> > > >  I use a Cyrus IMAP server and both "copies"
> > > > of the message refer to a single physical file on Cyrus' database (Cyrus
> > > > uses Unix links to make the message appear in several folders).
> > >
> > > that's an implementation detail that has nothing to do with evolution...
> > > as far as evolutin is concerned, the 2 messages are not the same object.
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > > >  This is
> > > > not a rare ocurrence; it happens to me regularly several times a day,
> > > > and only with Evo (I sometimes use Thunderbird, also with filters, and
> > > > it never exhibits this behaviour).
> > >
> > > sounds like your filters aren't setup properly. maybe you forgot a stop
> > > processing?
> >
> > No, I didn't forget. The filters simply have "Move to folder" followed
> > immediately by "Stop processing".
> >
> > > > Is this a synchronization problem between several components of Evo? Can
> > > > someone fix it?
> > >
> > > not a synch problem at all.
> >
> > But nevertheless a problem. It's happened to me with every version of
> > Evo since the 1.0 series.