[Evolution-users] Is this normal?

[Pete Biggs]

> 
> Thanks for this clue. I turned off IPv6 and verified it using "ip
> addr show"
> 
> But … Evolution got stuck again.

If you temporarily disable your MH folders does it still misbehave?

> 
> 
> Also, as I'm going through the "table of contents" pane at the top,
> deleting some, reading some, moving some, … Evolution decides to
> reorganize it, making some disappear until I refresh it, or deleting
> or moving the wrong one. Then some of the messages I deleted
> reappear, in a different order. I've sorted on "Received" but it did
> this also when sorting on "Date." Are these related?

"Date" is determined by the Date header on the email and is set by the
sender (so could be anything at all); "Received" is the date & time
that the email is delivered to your Inbox and is set by the receiving
MTA.  They *should* be very similar - but if an email gets stuck
somewhere or there are long delays in delivery, then they can be
significantly different - there's also the possibility that the clock
on the sending MUA is wrong and it means that the "Date" header could
be in the future :-)

As for your other problems.  I think lots of people have tried to help
you with it in the past with, apparently, little success.  It is almost
certainly not an issue with Evolution per se - we would see many, many
more complaints and questions about it if it were so. I've been using
Evolution for many years with a variety of account types and I have
never seen what you are describing.  So it seems that there is
something specific with your setup.

Do you have anything else accessing the email store - another instance
of Evolution? A Thunderbird running on a different machine? An app on
your phone or tablet? An internet service that you have given access to
your mail? (I believe things like Gmail can use an external IMAP server
as can some of the other web based apps.)

P.