[Evolution-users] Sent folder randomly resets to default

Pete Biggs pete at biggs.org.uk
Mon Apr 13 22:13:29 UTC 2026


> 
> There should be some LIST and/or LSUB requests and responses, that's
> almost the first thing after the IMAP code connects to the server
> (after the richer CAPABILITY response). You should see in these
> responses the Sent folder; if not, then the server did not include it
> for some reason. Maybe the reason is in the log, maybe not.
> 
> In short, check the LIST and LSUB lines (sometimes split into two
> lines) and whether there's any server error shown after they finish.
> 
There doesn't seem to be any errors in the log.

This is a summary of the log file starting with the initial IMAP
chatter and then the lines concerning the 'Sent Messages' folder. I
don't know if you can see anything wrong.

P.

[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00001 CAPABILITY'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* CAPABILITY XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 CONDSTORE ENABLE QRESYNC QUOTA XAPPLELITERAL NAMESPACE UIDPLUS UNSELECT SORT ESEARCH ESORT CONTEXT=SORT WITHIN SASL-IR ID IDLE X-APPLE-REMOTE-LINKS LIST-STATUS
A00001 OK Completed'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00002 NAMESPACE'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL
A00002 OK NAMESPACE completed (took 0 ms)'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00003 ENABLE CONDSTORE QRESYNC'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00003 OK ENABLE completed'
[imapx:A] Created new connection 0x7f9988154220 (server:0x7f9988001320) for [null]; total connections 1
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00004 LIST "" INBOX RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY UIDNEXT HIGHESTMODSEQ))'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "INBOX"
* STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 834 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 1389540428 UIDNEXT 18716 HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164914)
A00004 OK LIST completed (took 55 ms)'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00005 LSUB "" INBOX'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* LSUB (\Noinferiors) "/" "INBOX"
A00005 OK LSUB completed (took 1 ms)'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00006 SELECT INBOX'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* 834 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 834]
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1389540428]
* OK [UIDNEXT 18716]
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \Recent $MailFlagBit0 $MailFlagBit1 $MailFlagBit2 $Forwarded Redirected $NotJunk NotJunk)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \Recent $MailFlagBit0 $MailFlagBit1 $MailFlagBit2 $Forwarded Redirected $NotJunk NotJunk $iCloudCleanup \*)]
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164914]
A00006 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed (took 43 ms)'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00007 NOOP'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00007 OK NOOP completed (took 4 ms)'


* LIST (\Sent) "/" "Sent Messages"
* STATUS "Sent Messages" (MESSAGES 1640 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 1389540480 UIDNEXT 1646 HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164805)

* LSUB () "/" "Sent Messages"

[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00012 LIST "" "Sent Messages" RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY UIDNEXT HIGHESTMODSEQ))'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* LIST (\Sent) "/" "Sent Messages"
* STATUS "Sent Messages" (MESSAGES 1640 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 1389540480 UIDNEXT 1646 HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164805)
A00012 OK LIST completed (took 130 ms)'
[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00013 LSUB "" "Sent Messages"'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* LSUB () "/" "Sent Messages"
A00013 OK LSUB completed (took 7 ms)'

[imapx:A] I/O: 'A00054 STATUS "Sent Messages" (MESSAGES UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY UIDNEXT HIGHESTMODSEQ)'
[imapx:A] I/O: '* STATUS "Sent Messages" (MESSAGES 1640 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 1389540480 UIDNEXT 1646 HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164805)
A00054 OK STATUS completed (took 36 ms)'

* LIST (\Sent) "/" "Sent Messages"
* STATUS "Sent Messages" (MESSAGES 1640 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 1389540480 UIDNEXT 1646 HIGHESTMODSEQ 400181332164805)



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