Ubuntu
evolution-ews package

Evolution gets wrong EWS Inbox

Bug #1470492 reported by Jan Newmarch on 2015-07-01

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution-ews (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with evolution 3.10.4 and ews with no problems. Upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 and then 15.04 and evolution then gets the Inbox out of order and with contents a single file dating 4 years back, instead of 400 current msgs. Installing evolution+ews into a VirtualBox Ubuntu 14.04 and VirtualBox Ubuntu 15.04 show the same problem. Weirdly, another computer running Ubuntu 14.04 which was NOT upgraded still shows the Inbox in the correct place in the folder list and with the correct contents.

The still -working system:
$lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04

$apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 3.10.4-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.10.4-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.10.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

desktop:~$apt-cache policy evolution-ews
evolution-ews:
  Installed: 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The broken system:
$lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04

$apt-cache policy evolution-ews
evolution-ews:
  Installed: 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I can't see any difference between these. I've attached screen shots of the older ok and newer not ok versions. I tried reporting it upstream to the evolution developers but they weren't interested as evolution 3.10.4 is marked as obsolete. I tried to build the latest version of evolution from their source under Ubuntu 15.04 but too many old versions of required build packages.