ERROR refreshing IMAP folders(appear to get message headers at unexpected times)

[Andrew Hamblin]

Binary package hint: evolution

While trying to get the contents of my [gmail]/all mail evolution suddenly stopped responding(for this account only) and complaining with errors like. "Unexpected response from IMAP server: Return-Path:" for all action on this account.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 6 15:17:28 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: evolution

[Andrew Hamblin (lextori)]

Steps to reproduce

Attempt to look at a message in a [gmail]/all messages/ that contains many(this folder has something like 66000 messages), and try to open one while the folder is still getting headers.

Both operations fail.

what should happen

The program should retrieve the desired message, while continuing to get the list of messages in the folder.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Is this still an issue with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal? May you please check and comment back? Thanks in advance!.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for evolution (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Matthias Rampke (matthias-rampke)]

Yes, this is still the case, I got an error refreshing INBOX "Unexpected response from IMAP server: List-Post: <...>".

This was when accessing GMail via IMAP; there was no such mail in the Inbox at the time. It "went away" after I archived the mails that were in the Inbox, but still no mail is displayed. I receive a similar error trying to access All Mail, this time about Return-Path.

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

Still present. Confirming and triaging.

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

Medium - Unable to receive emails

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

Error appears transient and non-deterministic

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

10.10 is not longer supported
change status to invalid