Re: [Evolution] long outstanding evolution bug 339028 - any updates?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:31 -0500, Eugene Kanter wrote:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339028 filed 2006-04-19
> 13:49:28 UTC and last updated 2011-07-11 08:39:22 UTC, status NEW.
> Reproducible in every version including the latest one.
> Is there any valid reason for keeping this bug in the code for over 5
> years?
> As recently as about 3 months ago on this thread
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2011-March/msg00127.html
> the error came up again but bug was not mentioned.
> Thunderbird doesn't report any damaged messages in the same IMAP
> mailbox. It reads all emails with no problems.

This is what I call a "crap shoot". 

I've seen TB choke on messages on numerous occasions.  I haven't had
Evolution, in my every-day usage with two busy IMAP accounts, have an
issue displaying any message.  Same is true of Horde [which is probably
the most reliable IMAP client on the planet].  But I've no doubt
messages exist that will make either of them weep.

Is this an Exchange only issue?  It sort of seems like a server-side
problem; such a message shouldn't be allowed to exist.  It would seem
like a message without a date/from/to would have gotten kicked to the
curb by the MTA [not that clients shouldn't deal with stupidity
gracefully - I just think such an occurance is extremely rare].