Re: [Evolution] Filter-folder oddity -- case of non-displaying new mail

["Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts alum mit edu>]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 11:30 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:00 -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 17:06 -0500, Noble, Leigh DR. MATH wrote:
> > > Peter:
> > > I have also been having problems since about one week ago. I am using Evolution 2.8 on Ubuntu Edgy and 
> > > my problem began within the past week or so...
> > >
> > > I've been receiving the error "lost connection to backend" since last week. My new mail appears in my 
> > > inbox, but the filter process never completes. The error message pops up before filtering completes. 
> > >
> > > Don't know if my problem is related to yours, but given the date coincidence, and the fact that 
> > > everything was fine until about a week ago, I'm guessing that there's some relationship. Did you get a 
> > > prompt for some security updates? My problem seems to have started after I installed those updates. 
> > > (AFAICanRemember, none of the security updates was for Evolution, but maybe there were some gconf 
> > > updates there?)
> > >
> > > --Leigh
> >
> > Hi Leigh,
> >
> > I'm not sure it's related. I often get the same error message when using
> > Evolution to pull email from my office account remotely via
> > evolution-exchange (or brutus). 
>
> Do you get that message when using Brutus or only when using the "old"
> connector?

Good question. When I looked at my running processes the two were active
simultaneously. I just shut down Evolution, shut down brutus, then
reopened Evolution. Error message gone. Now, it's a sample size of 1. So
I'll run it this way throughout the day and see what happens...

Pete

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