Reports nonexisting unread messages in IMAP folders

[Nikolaus Rath]

Binary package hint: evolution

In some IMAP folders, evolution constantly reports a number of unread messages - even though there are no messages in the folder at all. Other IMAP clients like Thunderbird do not have this problem with the same folder, so I think it is a problem with Evolution and not the IMAP server.

I have attached a screenshot of the problem.

The IMAP server is a Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-14ubuntu3

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090610.1)
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[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)

[pj (pj-stickerpoint)]

Also affected - 1 unread message shown, but no messages at all in the IMAP inbox folder. Are others affected using ubuntu 9.10 like myself?

[billwcc (bwc403)]

I had the same issue with the eternal +1 unread email. It turns out I did have an unread message in Sync Issues->Conflicts. I deleted that message, and all is well.

[aldrei (snusmu)]

same with me, 3 unread emails which didn't exist.
furthermore, when i try to delete all messages from the folder, 3 of them don't disappear. unread number also stays.
when i restart evolution, there are 6 read messages in the folder, unread number still three.
when i try to delete them, same stuff, 3 read, number of non-existing unread remains 3.
finally i deleted the folder, and recreated it, that got rid of them.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate if bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577542

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2009. Version not more supported.
change status to invalid.