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Bug 692727 - Evolution hangs frequently reading my Google Apps mail
Evolution hangs frequently reading my Google Apps mail
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.6.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-28 18:37 UTC by Greg Dickie
Modified: 2013-01-29 13:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
gdb backtrace info from hung evolution (30.59 KB, text/plain)
2013-01-28 18:37 UTC, Greg Dickie 		Details

Description Greg Dickie 2013-01-28 18:37:26 UTC 
Created attachment 234641 [details]
gdb backtrace info from hung evolution

When reading my Google Apps email evolution will hang frequently with many running processes. Usually there is one "Saving user interface state" along with other stuck processes.

I built a 3.6.3 version for my Fedora desktop thinking maybe it was a bug in the included 3.6.2 but it still happens. See the attached gdb backtrace. I can reproduce this quite easily although I do not have the exact rep steps yet (just using it, it will usually happen within 30 minutes).

I really like evolution but it's unusable with this bug.
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2013-01-28 19:33:13 UTC 
Try Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Headers (tab)

Make sure this option is unchecked:

  [ ] Show the photograph of sender in the message preview
Comment 2 Greg Dickie 2013-01-28 22:01:51 UTC 
I'll try that thanks. Is that documented somewhere?
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2013-01-28 23:36:20 UTC 
I don't know.  I just know the sender photo feature has been and continues to be a problem, and from your backtrace it looks related to the hangs you're seeing.
Comment 4 Greg Dickie 2013-01-29 13:06:50 UTC 
This does indeed seem to fix it. Mareking as Resolved. I've been struggling with that for a while,in a FAQ somewhere.
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2013-01-29 13:32:01 UTC 
Yeah, it's frustrating we still can't get that feature working well.  And its current implementation is horrendous.  I'll try to give it some love when I can.