[Evolution] Hundreds of copies in Sent/Drafts

[Roland Wammers]

thank you for your quick response. I have responded to your questions
below.

> Is this IMAP to gmail? How did you provision the account? (Was it
> via
Evolution or Gnome-online-Account?)

Nope, it's just my regular hosting and mail provider. I believe they
use Horde for IMAP (but I might be wrong). The account was configured
by going through the standard setup process of Evolution.

> It may well be a bug in Evolution, I haven't got 3.18.x anywhere so
> can't test it. It sounds as though Evolution is getting a response
> from the server saying that the save was unsuccessful and so it tries
> again - or it is getting a response it doesn't understand and
> interprets it as failure.

The logs do not indicate an error sent by the server.

> Try changing the sent folder to a local one to make sure that works.

> Try changing it back to the remote folder - just reconfiguring the
sent
> folder like that has been known to "normalise" things.

Did that already - no dice. :-/

> I don't know if it is an issue here, but try changing the number of
> concurrent connections to '1' - gmail has been known to be a bit
> sensitive to multiple connections and it might be that Evo is
> interpreting non-response on multiple connection as failure.

As indicated above, there is no error sent by the server. Session is
closed normally.

However, I now found that after fully resetting Evolution, restarting X
and reconfiguring from scratch things seem to work as before. I had
tried recreating the account previously, but apparently this makes a
difference compared to fully resetting Evolution. Thanks again for your
help.


Cheers

Roland