GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 362831
Error messages from external sources (e.g. mail server) should have a suitable prefix
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:31:06 UTC
As in bug 362546 there is no useful information for a basic user as to the causes or possible solutions for this error. ------- Error while performing operation. DATA command failed: Illegal Attachment l22sm361487nfc ------- I will continue looking into the causes, maybe someone can look at a more useful error message.
that's the error message your server provides us... no way for evo to know what it means or parse it and try to replace it with something meaningful.
In that case I would suggest this bug stays open. Now my request for enhancement is that errors from external sources have a suitable prefix. For example it could read: ------- The server $servername gave the following response: Error while performing operation. DATA command failed: Illegal Attachment l22sm361487nfc -------
we can at least say that it is the server message displayed, and not evolution's fault that it's geeky
Yes it's the server which causes the problem. But if the server simply doesn't respond I would expect Evolution to make some useful and informative error message. I still think that Evolution can easily provide better context in this case, perhaps as suggested earlier.
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