Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
Ubuntu “evolution” package Bugs Bug #182799 describes the problem. Bug
is shown as fixed but issue, without SSL, still exists under Ubuntu 9.10
/ Evolution 2.28.1
- Under Edit->Preferences-><select account name>->Edit->receiving
options->Message storage
- Keep "Leave messages on the server" as ON
- Keep "Delete after N days" as ON and put say "3" days in place of N
- Keep "Disable support for all POP3 extensions" as OFF
Expected:
Messages to be deleted from POP server after N days
Instead:
Messages not deleted at all
(Message deletion or not verified by webmail interface to account.)
Additional info:
If
"Leave Messages on Server" is unchecked
and
"Delete after N days" is checked
send and receive will delete _all_ messages from server after message
collection.
Values of N tried so far are 3 and 4. Will try other values over coming
days.
SSL encryption is _not_ being used. (Bug #182799 refers to use of SSL.)
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Text from bug #182799 follows as fuller description of actual / expected
results (apologies if not necessary due x-ref above):
Evolution doesn't delete an email from the POP3 email server (with SSL
encryption) after a specified number of days and the mailbox quota on the
server gets full.
Steps to reproduce
- Configure a POP3 email account with
- Server type: POP
- SSL encryption
- Auth type as "password"
- Under Edit->Preferences-><select account name>->Edit->receiving
options->Message storage
- Keep "Leave messages on the server" as ON
- Keep "Delete after X days" as ON and put say "5" days in place of X
- Keep "Disable support for all POP3 extensions" as OFF
- Make sure that the server name and account details provided in the above
setup contains more than five days old emails and the server also has a
web-interface (or IMAP interface) to cross-check the presence of emails on the
server
- Do a send-receive of emails from the account
- Make sure the old emails are fetched in your local Inbox
- After send-receive, log on to the web interface or connect through an IMAP
interface to check whether the emails older than 5 days are deleted from the
server
Expected result
- The old emails should be deleted from the server
Actual result
- The old emails are not deleted and remain on the server.
Evolution version used: evolution 2.12.1
OS: Ubuntu 7.10
uname -a output: Linux lap432 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC
2007 i686 GNU/Linux
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 27 08:59:41 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2374): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:2374): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:2416): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2453): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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Evolution still not deleting mail from POP server after "N" days
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549406
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