GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317518
Errors reading imap folders
Last modified: 2006-05-01 21:43:59 UTC
Please describe the problem: I'm connecting to Solaris IMAP from SUSE 9.3, installed Evolution 2.4 from red-carpet. First tried using existing accounts: Evo seemed to hang with message "scanning folders on <mail_host> Removed all cached folders in .evolution/mail/imap, still hangs in scanning folders. Removed all .gconf settings, and recreated account, now I get a dialog: ----- Error while Scanning folders in "IMAP server <mail_host>". Unexpected response from IMAP server: 13844:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:104:fopen('server.pem','r') ----- Imap works find on for another server. I don't know what system that is running though. I've tried it with "show only subscribed folders" both on and off. Same response. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create IMAP account to Solaris IMAP server 2. Try to connect 3. Actual results: Error while Scanning folders dialog Expected results: Does this happen every time? Worked in Version 2.2 and before. Other information: rpm -qi evolution Name : evolution Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.4.0.0.200509270340 Vendor: Novell, Inc. Release : 0.snap.novell.11.1 Build Date: Tue 27 Sep 2005 02:50:02 AM EDT Install date: Thu 29 Sep 2005 08:59:15 AM EDT Build Host: public-build-5.boston.ximian.com Group : Applications/Productivity Source RPM: evolution-2.4.0.0.200509270340-0.snap.novell.11.1.src.rpm Size : 41961468 License: GPL Signature : (none) URL : http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/
hey john, thanks for the report. Please export CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 and then run evolution and put those traces you get here. Thanks
Created attachment 52820 [details] Output to stderr. This is the output to stderr with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1
Created attachment 52821 [details] stdout stdout with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1
Seeing these things a lot in the debug: Unexpected response from IMAP server: 27971:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:104:fopen('server.pem','r') Seems like its an issue with the server with regard to the security settings. Not sure what it means though. sigh!
Good thought on security settings. I had "Use Secure Settings: Always" Remove that, and results differ... I'll post another attachement.
With "Use Secure Settings: Never", gets a list of all files in my user account but doesn't show anything (with or without show only subscribed folders). The status message stays on "Scanning folders on ..."
Created attachment 52824 [details] stdout with ssl=never
Created attachment 52825 [details] stderr ssl=never
I can get to mail if "Override server-supplied folder namespace" and "Show only subscribed folders" Then I see a trash and sent folder, but no inbox, If I link the inbox from /var/mail/uname to the new namespace folder, I can read the mail there but it seems like a kludge. CAMEL log to follow.
Created attachment 52852 [details] Namespace kludge output...
I also get the following error dialog message on startup. IMAP command failed: SUBSCRIBE failed: Already subscribed to mailbox INBOX But I don't see the INBOX folder, only the Trash, Junk and the namespace folder. (not Sent as previously stated.)
you need to resubscribe to the 'mail' folder. Will let you know whats with the INBOX though (could you try re-subscribing it)
Unsubscribe and re-subscribe to the Inbox. This could be similar to the problems we had with courier imap when there was a No Select flag set on the Inbox by default. Thats a server bug we have a kludge around that in 2.4.2. Although i am not very sure if its the same problem.
John: YOU ROCK! I've been stuck with pine for several months because Evolution was not at all functional for me. Your kludge workaround (symlink to /var/mail/<name> under the namespace folder) made it so that I can use Evo again. WOOHOO! Anyway... comment 9 looks like bug 315944, bug 315976, and possibly bug 317178. The unsubscribe/resubscribe suggestion comments 12-14 is worthless as the folders aren't shown in order to be able to subscribe to them.
(In reply to comment #13) > Unsubscribe and re-subscribe to the Inbox. I can't unsub/resub since the subscriptions dialog has only the namespace folder listed. I don't see how to add the other mail files to the dialog. I'm sure it's a server thing, since other IMAP servers are working well.
Elijah, all four of these bugs look exactly the same. I haven't tried to retarget my namespace, as it works now with the kludge, so I don't want to mess it up. I'll be it's multiple namespace problem though.
i checked out all the logs and stuff. There are 2 aspects to this problem. The server issue: the whole issue with the server, it seems to be totally borked. Evo issue:the namespace thingy. we actually wanted to get the support in by 2.6 - we have a lot of code w.r.t the feature. But not quite stable and complete to be put in on head. and since the bugs bug 315944, bug 315976, and bug 317178 already filed on the namespace issue, i think this bug can be closed. Suggesstions/Comments??
Wahoo! Jeff fixed the namespace thing; since parthasarathi suggested that this was the thing keeping the bug open, I'm marking as a dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315976 ***