F10 evolution hangs on imap after a few hours

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Mar 14 00:42:27 UTC 2009


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
> > > complained about this.
> > ----
> > this sure sounds like what I'm experiencing. Complained about it?
> > Bugzilla? (I didn't see a bug report from you on this in bugzilla)
> 
> I meant the Evo BZ of course (it's not a Fedora problem as far as I
> know). Sorry if that wasn't clear.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571460
> 
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sometimes I think they pay more attention upstream if we report it
downstream and let them carry it upstream.

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.

Craig




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