Il giorno gio, 23/07/2015 alle 11.39 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 10:09 +0200, Andrea Vai wrote: > > > If not, you might want to reconfigure it, i.e. delete the account > > from Evo and > > > re-create it using GOA. > > Sorry, I would like to understand this fully, before making something > > wrong or something I wouldn't like. > > Is the IMAP configuration through GOA better, or even recommended, > > than configuring it directly from Evo? Why? > > I have always thought that a direct configuration would be better, > > because (among other reasons) there are less pieces of (possibly > > faulty) software in the middle. > > So, if configuring a GOA gmail account is not strictly needed to > > solve this problem, I would prefer not to do it. > > The other question would be: is not the "direct" configuration of > > IMAP in Evo supported/working fine? > > IMAP does work in Evo, but remember that Google's implementation of > IMAP in Gmail is unusual. Whether that is related to your problem or > not is hard to tell, but I know I did see a positive effect when I > changed to using GOA after many years of having manually configured > Gmail accounts. For one thing updating seemed to be much faster and > less error-prone (though this may have been due to updating Evo to > version 3.16.x). I have no idea why this should be so, but it's > important to note that Evolution is part of the wider Gnome system > (even though I use it under KDE) so other stuff is going on that may > not be directly visible. Perhaps Milan could expand on this. > > > I can add another test case, maybe interesting. One of the > > "disappearing" folder is the "[Gmail]/Draft" subfolder, which I use > > as the default draft folder in evo. If I have a draft message opened, > > and the folders disappear while it is opened, and I edit the message > > and I save it, if I have access to the folder again (directly into > > gmail, for example) I can view the message correctly updated. So, it > > seems that Evo does not "lose" completely the connection with the > > folders, but it simply does not show them in the tree. > > I was assuming that in any case. If Evo loses connection with an > account it will give a very visible warning. > > > One last thing that I have just noticed: I have 2 other IMAP accounts > > set up in Evo, and both have the same problem. So, I think the cause > > should not searched in the single account itself. Moreover, the > > disappearing happen in the same moment, i.e. the folders of the three > > accounts disappear simultaneously. And, finally, making the folders > > re-appear in one account (using the unsubscribe-resubscribe > > workaround) does not make them appear in the other accounts, so here > > each one seem to be independent from the other ones. > > I presume these are not Gmail accounts? Do you also have any POP > accounts that exhibit the same problem? Yes they are Gmail accounts. I have no POP accounts in my evo setup. BTW, I was not aware of any POP implementation that let you use folders (and folder subscriptions), does it exist?
> One option is to create a completely fresh user on your system, log in > and configure Evolution to access your accounts, then see how it > behaves. To minimize the number of variables, log out of your normal > user account first (or at least shut down Evo). Leave all the > Preferences set to default values and see what happens. Check if the > database error still appears for the new user. > > If that still doesn't work I can only suggest you update Evo to the > latest version (3.16.x) if possible. Thank you Patrick, I will save these suggestions for a later time, in case the help of Milan won't solve the problem. Andrea > > poc > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
