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

[Harvey Nimmo <harvey nimmo de>]

On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 23:36 +0100, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> 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.
And moreover, sometimes after logging in to Gnome and trying to start Evolution, I am getting a message  
"Cannot start Evolution. Another Evolution instance may be unresponsive.
System error: Timeout was reached."  At that point I am not expecting
any Evolution instance to be running.

Once I successfully start Evolution (e.g. on the second try), there may
be one or two of the 80 messages in my Inbox. If I try to delete any
messages, they are 'struck through' but I must wait for, say, 10 minutes
before they are moved into the Wastebox. If I try to quit Evolution
(CTRL-Q) that may also not go to completion for about 10 minutes.