GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 246724
new mail detection usually stops working overnight
Last modified: 2005-09-28 09:34:28 UTC
If you leave connector running overnight, it generally stops noticing new mail arrival at some point. This happens because the server closes idle HTTP connections, so soup has to open new ones to send the POLL commands in response to the notifications, but the server won't send back a 401 Unauthorized in response to a POLL that you don't have permission to perform. (It sends back a 207 with a 409 Conflict.) So the connection doesn't get authenticated, so the POLLs continue to fail.
this should be fixed in 2.0, but i can't test because notifications don't work correctly with the current office network setup
I tried to replicate this bug. In that process i configured two exchange accounts say 'user1' and 'user2', 'user1' with "Check mail automatically every 10 mins" option enabled and 'user2' without that option. I left these two accounts idle for 13 hours and then sent mails to 'user1' & 'user2' from some other account. 'user1' is able to detect the arrival of new mail, 'user2' can not.
What i am trying to say is both accounts' behaviour is as expected. I couldn't replicate the bug. I am using following devel snaps, evolution-2.4.0.0.200508310439-0.snap.novell.11.1 evolution-data-server-1.4.0.0.200508310439-0.snap.novell.11.1 evolution-exchange-2.4.0.0.200508310439-0.snap.novell.11.1
Marking this as fixed based on the comment above.
Verified.