Re: [Evolution] Very serious problem with evo-exchange 2.11.5

[Paul Smith <psmith gnu org>]

I'm still seeing this problem; it happens constantly (every day,
sometimes multiple times a day).  I've done a build with the latest code
from SVN head yesterday and I still see it.

One odd thing, which might just be coincidence, is that it always seems
to truncate my inbox down so that all messages before July are invisible
and I can only see messages from July and August.  As before, the only
thing that recovers all my inbox (that I've found) is to remove the
~/.evolution/exchange and ~/.evolution/exchange/mail directories;
restarting Evo doesn't help.

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 19:55 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:09 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > This seems to have fixed the flakiness about first delete times and
> > showing only part of the Inbox, as far as I can tell after
> > stopping/starting a few times and not seeing these problems.  However,
> > the partial Inbox situation didn't happen immediately the first time
> > so it's also possible I just haven't hit it yet.
>
> I just hadn't hit it yet :-/.  When I went to work I found that my work
> system (also running Evo SVN HEAD, 2.11.5) had magically "disappeared"
> most of my Inbox while I was at home, just like my home Evo did.
>
> I removed the .evolution/exchange and .evolution/mail/exchange
> directories at work, and then my Evo there was fine for almost the
> entire day; I was beginning to think the problem was solved.
>
> However, about 5pm or so it happened again: my work Inbox went from
> having 130 message in it to having 4.  Note that it's not just that
> there are only four summary lines shown: the counter of messages above
> the folder bar ALSO says there are only 4 messages there.  Extremely
> disconcerting.
>
> Stopping/starting Evo does NOT resolve this problem--since renaming the
> directories does, though, I have to conclude that there is a bug
> somewhere that is corrupting the exchange summary cache on disk.
>
>
> And here's the kicker: when I got home my home version of Evo had ALSO
> jumped to having just 4 messages in it!  When I left for work there were
> 130 or so, and no one was home all day (although I left my VPN running
> so the Evo at home WAS keeping up with mail, etc.), and when I got home
> just 4.
>
> This seems to imply there's a "feature" of the incoming mail itself
> that's instigating this corruption, NOT a GUI issue, since no one was
> using the GUI.
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