evolution, which is bundled with new ubuntu release oneiric, has a bug. Message Preview window stays on the old email preview and never refreshes again.

[Ekrem Yadigar]

evolution 3.2.1 version
Preview window don't work properly. It stays on the previously clicked message and i couldn't find a solution

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 29 11:52:56 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-10 (18 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dominique klein (dklein-scigames)]

affects 2 different computers now that I have upgraded second one to Oneiric too
One under 64bit version, one under 32 bits version

Randomly, not always on same message, preview pane freezes

please help

[dominique klein (dklein-scigames)]

Update

I do not think it is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887983
because messages didn't have to be huge to freeze the preview pane.

But I found a workaround that seems to work since a couple of days,
I de-activated in Evolution the use of user selectable font and switched back to
use standard app font,
since then, for now a couple+ days, my evolution does not freeze anymore.

There were also quite a few updates to Oneiric in between that I accepted,
so it may be one of those who fixed it.