Re: [Evolution] Evolution does not download all messages stored in folders (IMAP account)

[Pascal Hasko Bernhard <pascal hasko bernhard googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 09:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > When right-clicking on a folder and selecting properties the new pop-up
> > window tells me for many accounts that they contain say X messages, non
> > of them unread. Still no mails displayed in the message list. For some
> > folders I'm told that there should be over 200 messages in them, but
> > still only a tiny fraction of them or not a single one is to be seen. I
> > checked via webmail whether the number of mails Evolution tells me there
> > should be is correct, and most of the time there are actually more
> > messages in the folders than I'm told. As I do not have any empty mail
> > folders on any account, seeing a folder with no message always makes me
> > very suspicious. 
>
> The only way you are going to sort out what's happening is to get some
> debugging information.  Have you run Evolution from the command line?
> Do you get any suspicious activity? Have a look at

I just ran Evolution from the command line:

pascal Sabayon:~$ evolution
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-plugin"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-plugin"

(evolution:22688): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Failed to refresh folder:
folder://1369085697.6783.3%40Sabayon/'Synced%20Messages': Error
refreshing folder:  STATUS Mailbox name(s) contains invalid characters

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading
configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

** (evolution:22688): WARNING **:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Notifications.MaxNotificationsExceeded:
Exceeded maximum number of notifications


The message about invalid characters might point to the underlying
question, but that is just a guess.  I do not have folder with special
characters, or numbers or whatever, just plain letters.


>   https://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml
>
> and get a debug log using CAMEL_DEBUG=all - this will give you all the
> IMAP chatter and you should be able to see what's going on.  If you
> can't see any problems, then post a link to a sanitized copy of the logs
> here and someone else will have a look to see if there are any obvious
> problems.

I have not tried that so far, will have to look up how to debug that.



> The bottom line is that IMAP support in Evolution is usually rock solid.
> I suspect it's some oddity with the server - you've never said what
> server you are using?  Has anything changed with that recently?

That behavior is the same over all IMAP-servers I'm using: Gmail,
Yahoo-Mail, GMX-Mail, mailserver of my local LUG. As far as I know
nothing has changed.


Thanks for your hints,

Pascal