F10 evolution hangs on imap after a few hours

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 06:18 +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 2009/3/14 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 19:42 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:30 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >> > > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> > > > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >> > > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:58:30 -0700
> >> > > > > Craig White wrote:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > > Anyone else seeing this from evolution-2.24.5-1.fc10.i386 - after an
> >> > > > > > hour or two on imap connection, I click on a message and the screen
> >> > > > > > simply says 'Formatting message' but never goes further and even closing
> >> > > > > > Evolution seems to be hung (it does a purge of all deleted messages per
> >> > > > > > settings but never actually quits until I force it).
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Not that specific behaviour, but evolution is pretty much impossible
> >> > > > > to leave running regardless of which kind of mail connection you use.
> >> > > > > Something somewhere starts leaking like a sieve and it consumes all
> >> > > > > resources on the system. I gave up on evolution and started using
> >> > > > > claws-mail - it is vastly more reliable.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I've had my share of Evo problems (and have reported a good few to
> >> > > > Bugzilla) but I find the current version (2.24.5) to very reliable. I
> >> > > > tend to leave it running permanently. I have two IMAP accounts
> >> > > > (including this one on Gmail) and one POP account with less usage. My
> >> > > > main complaint is that occasionally the Gmail account becomes
> >> > > > inaccessible, but restarting Evo fixes it immediately. I ve already
> <snip>
> >>
> >> I'm quite certain that this is not a GMAIL issue but rather an IMAP
> >> issue and I'm currently testing it with TLS turned off to see if that
> >> matters. Clearly I have a similar problem to yours if not the same exact
> >> problem.
> >
> > I only ever see this with Gmail, not with my other IMAP account. From
> > your description, I think you are seeing a different problem. In my case
> > Evo is not hung and isn't showing "Formatting message". It just says
> > there's an error contacting the server when I try to open a message on
> > Gmail. Restarting Evo clears it immediately. This happens a few times
> > per day.
> 
> Ditto, but using Thunderbird and GMail/IMAP.
> 
> Every so often I come into work to find Thunderbird prompting for my
> Gmail password. When I supply it, I get a message saying
> "imap.googlemail.com is not a valid IMAP4 server." - a thunderbird
> restart cures this.

It was fairly clear to me that this is a problem with Gmail and not
Evolution, and now you have effectively confirmed it. The fact that it's
so easy to correct (even if it *is* Gmail's fault) is why I reported it
to the Evo BZ.

poc