evolution - Unexpected response from IMAP server: MIME-Version: 1.0

[xteejx]

Binary package hint: evolution

I get the following error when trying to receive emails from my Gmail account through IMAP:

"Unexpected response from IMAP server: MIME-Version: 1.0"

Haven't had this error before. Running Natty.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evolution 2.32.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 28 13:16:09 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-25 (31 days ago)
XsessionErrors:
 (nautilus:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Change Desktop Background: missing action Change Desktop Background
 (nautilus:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Ubuntu Documentation: missing action Ubuntu Documentation
 (nautilus:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Change Desktop Background: missing action Change Desktop Background
 (nautilus:3737): Gtk-WARNING **: Ubuntu Documentation: missing action Ubuntu Documentation
 (nautilus:3737): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

If you click on a different message and open the one that returned an error again, does it then display properly?

Please also confirm whether you see this only in IMAP or if you see it in IMAP+ as well (you can verify this in the account's settings for "Receiving")

Thanks!

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Hi Mathieu,
If I click on the offending message, then another, and then back, it doesn't change anything, it still will not display the message and re-errors. It looks as if evolution is stuck on downloading the one email, but will not grab any others since the erroring one is in some kind of download queue.
I only use IMAP, so not sure about IMAP+.
I have since manually went into gmail via the website and sorted through the emails that were there, so not sure which email is was that caused the error.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Can you try IMAP+ and confirm if it behaves the same way?

[xteejx (xteejx)]

I have tried IMAP+ and it seems more responsive than IMAP, but unable to reproduce the error, as the offending email was deleted from the gmail website, although I'm not sure which one it would've been. I'm taking an educated guess that it could have been something from Debian, perhaps a malformed email or something - I did see "Debian" in the error dialogue box that came up before this one but can't remember exactly what it was.
Please don't ask me to sift through the emails from Debian! Far too many to be doing that ;)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Since we can't reproduce the issue anymore, let's close this bug as Invalid. Teej, please don't hesitate to reopen it if you notice this happening again.