GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 576070
Evolution POP Protocol Bug
Last modified: 2009-03-25 03:03:07 UTC
Please describe the problem: Periodically the POP protocol forgets what mail has already been downloaded via the pop interfaces (evolution data error of some kind) and tries to download everything all over again. Can we modify evolution to remember what has been downloaded and/or allow for resynchronization of the POP interface without redownloading all mail? Thanks! Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Perodically. Other information:
See parent for further info: 539671
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 539671 ***
Perhaps 576070 is related to the go-evolution FAQ comment below. However, my mailbox doesn't have multiple copies. My cache-* files are writeable. And, yahoo claims to support the UIDL extension - http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/manage/checkother-02.html. http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_does_Evolution_download_duplicate_emails.3F_How_can_I_get_rid_of_them.3F_Why_does_Evolution_reload_old_mails_from_server_when_.22Leave_a_message_on_the_pop_server.22_is_activated.3F Why does Evolution download duplicate emails? How can I get rid of them? Why does Evolution reload old mails from server when "Leave a message on the pop server" is activated? There are several possible reasons when this happens: * You have got several copies in your mailbox * The mail server supports the UIDL extension yet changes the message UIDs each session * The mail server does not support UIDL (which means Evolution has to generate UIDs using md5sums of the message headers) but the server changes the message headers after download (usually adding a Status: or X-Status: header - Evolution's md5sum ignores these, but Evolution may be missing other headers that this particular server munges) * $HOME/.evolution/mail/pop/cache-* files are not writable There is also a script to get rid of duplicates at http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2005-January/041442.html and an external plugin available at http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/ which also works with Evolution 2.10 if you have installed the devel-packages for evolution (and evolution-plugin if your distro ships the plugins in a seperate package).