Re: [Evolution] Big problems with evo

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 11:52 +0000, Svante R Signell wrote:
> After Debian squeeze was released I continued to update the testing
> distribution.
> Suddenly evolution did not show any of IMAP files at all 

By "files" I assume you mean messages?

> and local folders were not visble. 

"local folders"?  So you local folders disappeared as well as your IMAP
folders.

> Downgrading to  evolution 2.30.3-5 did not solve the problem, still no
> files in my IMAP INBOX folder, but at least the local folders are
> visible.

Downgrading is a risky affair.  If you kept your config I'd wager it
won't work.

> evo is constantly fetching the summary information from the imap
> server and never completes:
> Fetching summary information for new messages in INBOX (xx% complete)
> and 
> Pinging IMAP server xx.yy.zzz (0% complete).

This seems like a connectivity issue.  Try running evolution like -

CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution.

And see what it says?  Can you telnet to port 143 of your IMAP server?

> Error messages printed out are:
> evolution-mail-Message: Error occurred while existing dialogue active:
> Incomplete server response: no information provided for message 1
> and
> (evolution:18019): camel-imap-provider-WARNING **: No information for
> message 1
> evolution-mail-Message: Error occurred while existing dialogue active:
> Incomplete server response: no information provided for message 1
> Evo works perfectly on other computers (with newer versions of evo)
> connected to the same IMAP server.
> Removing the folders.db file did not solve the problem.