[Evolution] mails retrieved through davmail disappear

Xavier Bestel n0made at free.fr
Thu Oct 8 12:03:22 UTC 2015


Le mardi 06 octobre 2015 à 10:01 +0200, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> Le mercredi 30 septembre 2015 à 11:26 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a
> écrit :
> > Quoting Xavier Bestel <n0made at free.fr>:
> > > I'm using Evolution 3.16 to access work email through davmail
> > > (because
> > > I have to), with IMAP/CaldDAV/LDAP. My problem is that on mail
> > > receive,
> > > I see a notification with the Subject line of the new mail, when I
> > > enter the corresponding INBOX I see briefly that the mail arrived
> > > but
> > > it disappears after like half a second.
> > > And then the only mean to really see it is to quit Evo and restart
> > > it.
> > > Does that ring any bell ?
> > 
> > I have not used DavMail but I wonder if perhaps you have a preview 
> > open and once the message is 'seen' it disappears from the view.
> > 
> > Do you possibly have your view set to "Unread Messages", if so if you
> >   
> > change that to "All Messages" are the messages visible?
> > 
> > If you have a preview open sitting on a message for a particular  
> > timeout will change the status of the message to read.
> > 
> > gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail mark-seen-timeout
> 
> Nope, I'm a long-time Evo user and I have tried all the obvious (to me)
> things I could think of. Sometimes when I switch to the davmail account
> in Evo some read mails even become unread again !
> But generally the only way to see new mails is to quit and restart Evo.
> It's a bit unnerving.

FWIW it's more or less solved by disabling IMAP notifications (I think
it's PUSH mail).

	Xav



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