e-mail content corruption in Evolution

[Frederik Elwert]

Now for the second time since I upgraded to Precise, I experienced e-mail corruption in Evolution. In the list view, subject, sender and so on are correct, but when I open the e-mail, its content is truncated and also shows parts of the message that are normally not printed, like HTML code and message boundaries. When I open the e-mails source, I can see that also the headers are broken.

I attached a screenshot of one message’s source, which is heavily corrupted.

When I open the e-mail on my provider’s webmail interface, it is complete there. So it seems that not the actual e-mail content on the IMAP server is broken, but evolution’s cache or rendering or whatever.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 31 09:13:52 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-22 (8 days ago)

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

Today, I experienced this issue again with a new message. Any ideas?

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

I could fix/work around this by deleting the folders.db file and forcing Evolution to re-build it. So the corruption seems to take place when building this database.