Hi Pete, Thanks for the tips. I did some test: 1: Type simple mail with PDF attachment mailed to myself. 2: hit [Send] 3: Email received. Do step 1 to 3 several times. The results are different. First mail at 08:13: Everything OK, PDF is attached and attachment shows up. Second mail at 08:14: Mail arrives but literally everything is lost (header, text, attachment) Third mail at 08:24: Again everything is OK Fourth mail at 08:25: PDF and mail text are lost. Fifth mail at 08:25: PDF, title and mail text are lost. When writing text and PDF are lost, they are lost. - In inbox listing email has: no attachment . - Opening the mail to read it shows that the text is replaced by a single line of garbage characters. - Move the mail to a local folder and then open the evolution mail file shows the same as the email listing. When there is an attachement it shows the PDF encoded text (lines of "garbage"). When there is no attachment the file contents shows no PDF block of characters. As you write, it clearly has to do with timing and with the size of the PDF file as attachment. Smal PDFs are lost more frequently than large PDFs, one must be faster than the other (timing). I reduced the amount of connections (from 5 to 2) to the server and that seems to do the job. Clearing the cache is not really an option. Regards, Marc Please do not print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attachments are intended for the sole use of the named recipient(s) and contain(s) confidential information that may be proprietary, privileged or copyrighted under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, or forward this email message or any attachments. Delete this email message and any attachments immediately. -----Original Message----- From: Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution and PDF attachments behavior Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:55:13 +0100 Short: When I send myself a mail, gmail, with PDF attachment, Evolution loses the mail text and PDF attachment and replaces everything with garbage.Well, it's not really garbage - it's the content type separator. Gmail is strange though in lots of the ways it does things - it's IMAP implementation is a kludge on top of how Google thinks mail should be handled. What it looks like is that there is some timing issues between Gmail processing the mail and Evolution attempting to retrieve it. A few things you can try: Have a look at the source of the message and see if the MIME structure is correct - see if the encoded PDF attachment is present or not. Try reducing the number of concurrent connections in the account setup. If it is because Evo is retrieving things too quickly, then it might help to delete the cache and get it to download the mail again. (Stop Evolution and it's mail subprocesses and then remove the directory ~/.cache/evolution/mail - when Evolution is restarted it will recreate the directory and re-populate the cache, if you have lots of subfolders or a slow connection, it will take a while.) P. |