GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710809
Evolution stuck not updating IMAP mailbox
Last modified: 2015-04-28 18:54:59 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
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.
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?
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.