Package: Evolution
Priority: Major
Version: 1.0.2
Synopsis: Evolution imposes it's view on IMAP folders
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
One of the features of IMAP is it being multi-user.  I can read my
messages from at home and at work.  My co-workers can select
and process messages from a common input mail box.

This breaks now with evolution.  If I don't close down my session
at work evolution gets very confused (at best) when I delete
messages from my home.  Worse it will reset the Unseen flag on
messages already read.  This has caused us problems with our
customer service email by having us process requests multiple
times.

It appears that evolution polls the server for state information, and
then assumes that it is the authority.  This is incorrect, the server
always has the current/correct state. Netscape mail checks
the status in the background every mail poll interval and updates
the display accordingly.  If a message gets deleted it gives a
message instead of hanging arguing with the server about
the message id.

I don't recall seeing this problem in the pre 1.0 versions of
evolution.