[Evolution-users] Stuck opening folder

[Pete Biggs]

On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 11:14 -0700, Van Snyder via evolution-users
wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 08:07 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users wrote:
> > b) convince the distro maintainers to backport the fix from the bug I
> > posted a link to in your original thread (it's an exercise for you to
> > find it, otherwise, if you kept your message in that thread, you'd have
> > it for free).
> 
> I stored Evolution messages in one of the folders that Evolution got
> stuck trying to open — which is why I guessed wrong about the
> original subject line for the topic.

Threading doesn't just work on the subject - there are threading
headers which allows the emails to be placed in the correct position in
the threads when you reply to a message.

>  I eventually the bug report in the archive
> at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-
> /issues/605 . The report looks more like an explanation of the
> problem than a code revision to repair it.

There's a commit link towards the end that points to the code fix:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/commit/9a212fd7f8a91332b87869ac93e6ccd93133308d

> 
> How do I contact the managers for Debian? What should I send them?
> 

I suspect the easiest way is to submit a Debian bug and point to the
Evolution bug report (and link to the thread(s) here) and ask them to
backport the patch. 

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

It's a fairly simple patch - I don't use Debian so I'm not sure how
well it will be received. You should read up on all this on the Debian
web site rather than asking here (which is a distro agnostic place).

P.