Re: [Evolution] How to find mails which have disappered ?

[Harvey Nimmo <harvey nimmo de>]

On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 16:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 21:01 +0100, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> > I am having a similar problem right at this moment with Evolution. I
> > know that I have about 75 mails on my pop server (amongst others,
> > several from this list!). They are being downloaded about one every 10
> > minutes or so, and then comes an error message that Evolution could not
> > get a POP summary and a second one that the pop server closed the
> > session. (By chance this mail was the latest to arrive. I can send
> > mails, as you can see)
> > I posted a forum thread on opensuse/applications (English) a couple of
> > weeks ago describing in more detail the stability problems I have been
> > having with Evolution. In case anyoone wants to look, the title of the
> > post is 'Evolution unstable' 
>
> That is a misleading title.  If Evolution said "the pop server closed
> the session" do you have a substantive reason for believing that this is
> message is not true?  That and the POP summary message make me suspect a
> network or provider issue.

The second message is (something like) "could not download message id
nnnn. TCP session closed by peer".  

> >  is tucked in the system at a level below the
> > application level and is, therefore, beset with the similar sicknesses
> > to MS Outlook?
>
> I do not even know what this means.  
>
> "tucked in the system at a level"????

I was just a bit puzzled by the fact that I get Evolution notifications
even when the evolution mail client has not been started. But Pete Biggs
gave me a plausible explanation for that.


> > Has anyone else noticed this behaviour? Does anyone have a solution?"
>
> No.  But I do not use an EWS account, so that is one difference.
>
> If you disable and account does the same behavior still exhibit itself?
> Have you tried disabling accounts and running them activated one at a
> time to see if one account is the culprit?
I cannot disable the EWS account within the Evolution client. It can
only be deleted. And yes, I am having problems connecting to that
account server as well.