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Bug 710809 - Evolution stuck not updating IMAP mailbox
Evolution stuck not updating IMAP mailbox
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.10.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-24 13:54 UTC by David Juran
Modified: 2015-04-28 18:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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backtrace from evolution (19.42 KB, text/plain)
2013-10-24 13:54 UTC, David Juran 		Details

Description David Juran 2013-10-24 13:54:22 UTC 
Created attachment 258023 [details]
backtrace from evolution

I have a rather flaky wireless connection and evolution has a tendency of getting stuck not showing new emails that pop up in the mailbox. Sometimes, switching to a different mailbox helps it get unstuck.

backtrace of evolution process attached
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2013-10-24 15:51:54 UTC 
Looks like it's stuck in an ssl_Read() call waiting for data from the server.

As mentioned on IRC, cancelling low-level NSS I/O calls has always been somewhat problematic and I'm still not sure if we were doing it 100% correctly.  The next Evolution release (3.12) will use GTlsConnection (backed by GnuTLS) which most GLib-based apps already use for network I/O.  That may help here.
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2015-04-28 18:37:48 UTC 
David, did you have a chance to try with 3.12.x, or even better with the curent stable 3.16.x series of evolution please?
Comment 3 David Juran 2015-04-28 18:54:59 UTC 
I haven't been on this particular flaky wifi lately but my gut feeling is that evolution-3.12.11 in Fedora 21 handles this better so tentatively closing this bug.