GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341957
Evolution displays emails twice in Inbox upon first startup (mbox-formatted file)
Last modified: 2013-04-07 01:19:42 UTC
Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 Package: Evolution Severity: Normal Version: GNOME2.14.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Synopsis: Evolution displays emails twice in Inbox upon first startup Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Evolution displays emails in Inbox twice Description of Problem: Evolution displays emails twice in Inbox upon first startup. After restart (of evolution), this phenomenon disappears (emails are displayed regularly). Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start system 2. Start evolution 3. Look at email list in Inbox Actual Results: When evolution is started the first time after the system start, the emails in the Inbox are displayed twice. When I close the evolution main window and start it the application again, emails are shown normally (backend problem?) Expected Results: Should not happen, emails should be displayed in the number they appear in the Inbox, not more. How often does this happen? Almost every time I first start evolution after system start. Additional Information: Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.16. Also happened with Gnome-2.12/2.10 and kernel-2.6.xx ------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2006-05-16 09:55 -------
what kind of account type is this? IMAP, IMAP4rev1, POP?
Evolution accesses an mbox-formatted file directly. The email delivery process is done via fetchmail->sendmail->procmail->Inbox file. However, the described problem happens both when a fetching process is simultaneously running (which is of no problem due to proper locking) and when accessing a "dormant" Inbox mbox-formatted file. It also happenes with other mail folders (mbox files) when starting up evolution for the first time. I'll attach a small picture illustrating the effect (invading on my privacy ;-)) Regards, Birger
Created attachment 65590 [details] Desktop picture illustrating the funny display effect
weird... I've never seen this with any mailbox type (I use mbox and IMAP folders extensively)
Hi Birger, if you have time, could you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 3.4.2 or 3.2.3 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version" field and provide information about your distribution? Thanks a lot.
Hi Birger, if you have time, could you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 3.4.4 or 3.2.3 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version" field and provide information about your distribution? Thanks a lot.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!