Renaming folders makes evolution confused, no messages shown

[Pauli Virtanen]

Binary package hint: evolution

I renamed a mail folder (IMAP) using right-click -> Rename folder. (The renamed folder was not INBOX, and I did not move it to INBOX.) What happened in the Evolution UI was that:

1. A folder appeared with the new name, but with no messages.
2. The old folder remained behind, but also empty.

Checking with a different email client (alpine), the folder was renamed alright and the messages were still there. However, evolution failed to show them. Going to Folder -> Subscriptions and unchecking checkboxes, pushing Refresh, re-checking the checkboxes, and restarting Evolution helped.

I also unsubscribed and re-subscribed INBOX by accident at the same time. This made all messages in INBOX to disappear. Again, checking with alpine, the messages are there, but Evolution refuses to show them. The procedure that helped with the renamed folder doesn't seem to make the messages re-appear. Note that this is not the only time this kind of thing has happened to me with Evolution -- moving and removing folders seems to quite often make it confused.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Pauli Virtanen (pauli-virtanen)]

This might be similar to bug #397980

[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)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

There's a few reports on the upstream bts about imap and renaming with evolution, but can't find your exact situation, could you please open a new bug there? instructions on how to do it are available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of Evolution is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.