Re: [Evolution] SOLVED (probably) Re: "Error while performing operation. Cannot get message with message ID ..."

[Volker Wysk <post volker-wysk de>]

Am Samstag, den 03.08.2019, 12:01 +0100 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Sat, 2019-08-03 at 07:58 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > This means (probably) that evolution 3.32.1 doesn't properly cope
> > with
> > folders which are used/accessed by two or more IMAP clients
> > simultaneously. A message ID can be valid in one moment and invalid
> > in
> > the next, because a different agent has done something. That's not
> > an
> > error, it should just be ignored (as far as I can tell).
>
> How is Evolution supposed to know it's not an error? If you have two
> different and uncoordinated email clients manipulating the same
> server
> mailbox, each of them can only report on what it sees.

I don't know. But it should be taken into consideration that this can
happen and is not an error.


> If you want to use getmail to fetch mail and put it on your local
> IMAP
> server, then I suggest you point Evolution to the *local* server.

That's what I'm doing, with the other account.


Bye,
Volker