GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742930
Geary messes up conversations
Last modified: 2015-01-23 10:37:51 UTC
Created attachment 294546 [details] dates are entirely wrong Maybe related to #742804. I reorganized my inbox (moved a few messages around) and now geary does some strange things with dates. I have attached a screenshot which shows the problem. My setup is the same as in #742804; postfix (2.11.3) and dovecot (2.2.15); timezone Europe/Berlin, UTC+1.
Do only the dates differ, or is the email in the preview a different one than the email chosen in the list?
The mail matches, just the date differs.
This is by design. When you moved your Inbox around, you most likely touched (changed) the messages modification dates, which are the IMAP INTERNALDATE's, which are treated as "time received" by Geary. That's part of the issue. To ensure the most recently received email is at the top of the list, we use that date (*not* the date in the conversation viewer, which is "time sent" more or less) to sort the conversation list. If we show the "time sent" date in the conversation list, then often the list will appear out of order, so we display the "time received". My advice in the future is, if you reorganize your Inbox, be sure the INTERNALDATE's are preserved. That will avoid most of this problem.
> My advice in the future is, if you reorganize your Inbox, be sure the > INTERNALDATE's are preserved. That will avoid most of this problem. Well, that's fine. But I am just a user moving e-mails from one directory to another with evolution (gnome's default client). It is not that funny when my inbox in geary breaks every time when I move emails...
Ok, I see. I thought from your earlier comments that you had direct access to the email and were moving them around on the filesystem. If you're using an email client to move them, then it should be doing them correctly. I believe what you're seeing is bug #714802. Because messages are being moved between folders and stored out of chronological order, there's a pathological case where Geary won't load messages in the folder. I'm marking this as a duplicate of that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 714802 ***
> I thought from your earlier comments that you had direct access to the email > and were moving them around on the filesystem. If you're using an email client > to move them, then it should be doing them correctly. Exactly. Sorry for this misunderstanding and thank you for the pointer to bug #714802.