Re: [Evolution] Configuration for Yahoo Mail IMAP Account

[Pascal Bernhard <pascal hasko bernhard googlemail com>]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:50:43 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 08:30 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 23:21 +0100, Pascal Bernhard wrote:
> > > Although I can receive mails Evolution shows me this error
> > > message:
> > >
> > > Error syncing changes:  UID STORE error - Invalid value
> > > ($Labelpersonal) for data item +FLAGS.SILENT
> >
> >         Hi,
> > it tells you that it failed to set a user-specified Label on the
> > message. IMAP store's these labels server-side. Why your Yahoo IMAP
> > server doesn't like it is hard to tell, it might be a question for
> > Yahoo support. You cannot do basically anything with this, except
> > of not using Labels with you Yahoo account.
>
> This is a known bug with Evolution. The IMAP server *tells* us which
> flags it supports, but Evolution ignores that and tries to set
> unsupported flags anyway.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621837

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I could not apply Milan's suggestions
so far, as an upgrade to GNOME-Shell had the effect that GNOME's login
manager won't allow me to login to my system anymore, and I have to sort
out that problem first. But I will let you know, whether I had at least
some success.

Regards, 

Pascal


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