Offline IMAP synchronisation unreliable

[Demosthenes]

Binary package hint: evolution

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Evolution 2.28.1
IMAP - confirmed with Gmail and local ISP mail server

I have set folders to be marked for offline synchronisation, as well as enabling the automatic synchronisation option. Have synchronised for offline use and switched offline, and synchronised again when prompted. Many emails are not available when offline, and network usage indicates that not much has been downloaded. Have attempted on two different systems, both using Karmic. This is very important to me as this is the main reason to use Evolution, as I currently have no other way to backup an IMAP email folder.

Seems to happen on large email accounts. Tried on a small email account, and seems to have worked. On large email accounts, it seems only a small number of random emails are downloaded.

[Demosthenes (demosthenes)]

Is this the correct place to lodge an Evolution bug? Please advise, as I am very keen to contribute what I can to resolve this with offline access required very soon.

[Demosthenes (demosthenes)]

I have received reports, and appears to be confirmation, that this bug appears to be replicated in large mail folders. Small mail folders appear to synchronise off-line successfully.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Demosthenes (demosthenes)]

I have created an upstream bug as I could not locate an upstream bug report that seemed to specifically deal with this.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604027

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

change status to Fix released (see gnome-bugs)