GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 561211
Evolution doesn't download all attachments for offline usage
Last modified: 2010-09-17 03:40:29 UTC
Please describe the problem: Binary package hint: evolution Since Ubuntu 8.10 evolution doesn't sync all attachments for offline usage. Even if I tell evolution to do so in the preferences dialogue as well as in the context menu bei right klicking the folder and select properties. For some attachments I get a popup with an error-message like "file://..." <-- don't know exactly what the problem was. For some other attachments I can see a message in the status-bar: "Fehler bei >>Anlage wird gespeichert<<." (Error at saving attachment). My mail-account is GMX (IMAP). I am running Ubuntu 8.10 (clean install) with evolution setup new done (no backup used as I thought that this caused the problem). Steps to reproduce: 1a. Select "Entfernte E-Mails automatisch lokal synchronisieren" in the preferences dialogue or 1b. Select folder context menu and select in properties "Den Ordnerinhalt lokal zum Arbeiten im Offline-Modus kopieren" 2. Click "Nachrichten für Offline-Benutzung runterladen" Actual results: It downloads most (?) mails (maybe just if they are plain-text) and in some to me not clear conditions attachments like *.tex files, sometimes *.ppt and so on. Expected results: I would like evolution to download everything so Evoultion would be usable if offline. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution Package: evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
I also reported this bug on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/298871
Looks valid to me: asking for the part "" as evolution's cache does in 8.10 won't always grab every MIME part, I have a patch in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564339 which makes this more clear and points towards a solution.
*** Bug 560795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If possible, please use improved IMAP support IMAPX (IMAP+) which is a part of evolution 2.30.0 and let us know how does it handle offline case, tia.
With evolution 2.30.2 in Debian Squeeze and with IMAP+ everything works fine. For Ubuntu I can't test as 10.04 does use 2.28.3. So for me and now this bug seems to be fixed. At least with 2.30.2 and Debian. No idea about Ubuntu. Thanks for your help (and sorry for the delayed answer... totally forgot it :-/)
Thanks Martin.