Evolution freezes while loading emails on IMAP

[Michael Losonsky]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution (in 6.10) freezes after installing a large account IMAP.
Once it freezes, it has to be force quit. Rebooting
and reloading (as the same user) returns the frozen
screen. Reinstalling evolution still returns you to
the frozen screen. Only if you log on as another
user do you get a new set-up menu and you can
start over again, as long as you don't try to set-up
the same IMAP account.

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

This happens only with dial-up connections (56k). I
am assuming it freezes when it is downloading my
large IMAP files and inbox. However, neither
Netscape nor Mozilla have a problem with this when
using dial-up.

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

This has been resolved. I was impatient. On
dial-up, it takes a while to load IMAP accounts
first time, and the window freezes while the
account loads. It takes a minute or two to load,
the first time. Thereafter it is faster, but the
window still seems frozen and partial (just
frames visible) during this time and will frighten
the newcomer.

Perhaps a little warning that dial-ups need to be
patient when loading IMAP accounts the first time
would be helpful.

Michael

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, there is different bugs open upstream already about evolution freezing when network is slow or not responding

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

Thank you! Merci! Danke schoen.

I found that it doesn't freeze if you
let it download everything and not
try to do anything else in evolution.
It always takes about 3 - 4 minutes
to load all IMAP files and folders on
dialup.
Michael

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

>Thank you for your bug, there is different bugs open upstream already
>about evolution freezing when network is slow or not responding
>
>** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
>
>** Summary changed:
>
>- Evolution freezes after installing IMAP account
>+ Evolution freezes while loading emails on IMAP
>
>** Also affects: evolution (upstream)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
>
>

[mangar (mycrapaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm using ubuntu's 7.10 default evolution, with a gmail imap account.
evolution is extremely slow to load the emails, even when the headers are present.

using broadband connection (not dial up).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Losonsky (michl)]

Regarding question from Pedro, please see my previous comments.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I'm asking if this is still an issue with Hardy or Intrepid can you give it a try and report back? otherwise i'm going to close this bug. thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

Definitely seeing this behavior in intrepid here.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

Running from a terminal, while it's frozen there's a message like this every few seconds:

> Saving 19/19 dirty records of INBOX/archive/cs
>
> (evolution:13641): camel-imap-provider-WARNING **: Unable to load summary no such table: INBOX/archive/dreamhost

This seems to occur for every one of my many many imap folders, so I'm not sure if evolution is actually frozen, or just taking an incredible amount of time doing something. (To confirm, thunderbird works fine and quickly on the same IMAP account.)

It should be noted that this is on a high speed dsl, not even on dial-up.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

please do not comment on a closed bug, open a new one rather, thanks.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

> Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this > bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Re-opening, since this does appear to still be an issue in intrepid, and the information requested has been provided.

[Joseph Chereshnovsky (joseph.chereshnovsky)]

I have exactly the same symptoms with Evolution for my POP account and 5Mbit Internet chanel.
Rebooting and reloding (as the same user) returns the frozen screen.