I can't reproduce this issue, it might be specific to using xmonad... Would it be possible for you to try out the same actions in the default window manager, so in Unity; or another such a xfce or anything else?
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Also affects: xmonad (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878560 Title: evolution mail view stops updating Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xmonad” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Every so often, particularly when going through a set of messages quickly (though it's hard to reproduce) the mail view pane in evolution stops refreshing. That is, it'll get stuck showing whatever it was showing. Content is being rendered there (I can tell because mouseover things still work as expected, you just can't see where they are) but it's not showing up. If I right-click on it, the image of the menu will remain there. If I hide and reshow the pane (ctrl-m) it doesn't fix it, it comes back but still nothing gets drawn there. I'm not using compositing (I'm running xmonad), so that will influence some of these symptoms I expect. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: evolution 3.2.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 20 11:44:27 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nl_NL:nl PATH=(custom, user) LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (5 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/878560/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp