[Evolution] Bug#422800: Same here, also with dovecot

[Øystein Gisnås]

2008/2/6, Matijs van Zuijlen <matijs at matijs.net>:
> severity 422800 grave
> thanks
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:40 +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > I also see messages not being moved (just put in trash). I also use
> > dovecot.
> >
> > Maybe this bug needs te be marked grave?
>
> Hm, yes. Evolution just lost the message it just sent. Local exim logs
> confirm it was indeed sent, but the message itself is not on the imap
> server (where the Sent box is).

I have seen similar behavior where attempted moving of messages ends
up with message being deleted (or moved to trash) at the source folder
but never ends up at the target folder. There may be various reasons
for that, but any general failure on the target side (think: pull the
plug of the target mailserver) would give this, I think. As long as
Evolution doesn't have proper transaction support for moving email,
this will be more or less a problem. With proper error messages and a
message instance in the trash, the user can cover up for the problem.

I will therefore ask you to describe scenarios you have where (a) the
message doesn't end up i trash, or (b) no error message is shown. Try
to make it as easy as possible to reproduce the problem.

Cheers,
Øystein