GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 561639
Drag-and-drop to IMAP produces duplicates
Last modified: 2009-06-20 18:08:46 UTC
Please describe the problem: Dragging and dropping a local mail folder to an IMAP server (to create an IMAP mail folder) results in two copies of every message in the new IMAP folder. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start with a local mail folder with some messages in it. 2. Have an IMAP account as well. 3. Drag a folder from the local account to the IMAP server account. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
Oh... And this operation does not preserve the "read" status of the messages; that is, all moved messages are set to unread.
Hmm, no, this works for me. I dont see neither the duplication, nor the state. May be Im missing some settings or so. I use against GMail's IMAP, it works for me. Even my labels, flags copied well.
I see this consistently when I drag a whole folder. If I create a new empty folder in the IMAP account and then drag the messages to it, I don't see the problem.
The IMAP server I'm using is a dovecot installation on the local machine. I haven't had any luck getting Evolution to work with Gmail.
Oh, then you drag a folder, from the folder tree and drop it to the IMAP store ? Lemme try this out.
I dragged my test folder having 7 mails, to INBOX. It created me INBOX/test which had the same number of mails :( What am I missing? Akhil, can you test this? THis seems serious to me.
I tried to reproduce the bug but got stuck due to bug 562529
This may be a particular manifestation of a more general bug. I'm seeing the duplicate message issue in another context. Sometimes when running Evolution and changing to a different (local) folder, that folder will appear to have duplicate copies of every message in it. Shutting down Evolution and restarting it will bring the folder view back to normal. I suspect what may be happening here is that dragging and dropping a folder more-or-less reliably triggers the "duplicate view" bug for the local folder; at that point, copying the folder contents copies duplicates. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found another way to trigger the "duplicate view" problem reliably.
Akhil, do you see it any time? Braden, do you face it with 2.24.3 ? Any steps with which I can reproduce it?
Please reopen if you have more details on it. Im unable proceed on this otherwise.