Bug 1048644
| Summary: | "Error fetching folders: list: expecting '(' or NEWLINE": IMAP LIST results > 16kb | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm> |
| Component: | evolution | Assignee: | Matthew Barnes <mbarnes> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | john.horne, lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2014-01-15 16:12:52 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I too am now seeing this problem, having just updated my work PC to Fedora 20. The PC runs 'dovecot' for IMAP services. I used F17 previously, and that worked fine (using Dovecot/IMAP/Evolution). However, whilst the error does occur if I use the 'Folder->Subscriptions' command, I can see my mailboxes and the subfolders and the messages in them. The error message does popup every so often (at the top of the message list pane), but I am unsure when exactly it occurs. If I click 'Refresh' on a folder, the message doesn't appear; if I click 'Send/Receive' for my mail, the message doesn't appear. Sorry to muddy the waters a bit! I am using (if it helps): dovecot-2.2.9-1.fc20.x86_64 A little more info... In my case I have configured Evolution to check for IMAP mail every 5 minutes. I get the above error message appearing when that 5 minute check occurs. The message appears, and then I see at the bottom of the Evolution window the message "Checking for new mail at 'Work'" (Work being the mailbox on my work PC). This is actually a show-stopper for me now. I am at work and cannot see any mail at all (just the 'Work' folder, but no messages) - obviously not good at all! If I cannot find a workaround very soon, then I may well have to see about downgrading to F19 or use another mail client. Thanks for a bug report. I moved this upstream as [1]. Please see [1] for any further updates. If possible, please CC yourself there, in case upstream developers will have additional questions. This way the upstream IMAP developer will notice the issue more easily. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722275 |
Description of problem: After upgrading from F19 to F20 evolution fails to connect to an account with many mailboxes. The error is Error fetching folders: list: expecting '(' or NEWLINE Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Always on a many mailbox account Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start evolution - Account in question is show w/o any folders 2.Go to subscription menu - the above error occurs 3. Actual results: The account is shown w/o folders and mailboxes. Upon trying top list them in the subscription menu the mentioned error is displayed Expected results: Normal list behaviour of folders and mailboxes in them Additional info: The same imap server/account setup worked for all previous Fedora releases, e.g. evolution up to version evolution-3.8.5-2.fc19. It still works for manual entry of IMAP commands as well as other clients like mutt. I turned off SSL and debugged the TCP stream. evolution sends the following commands: R00854 LOGIN XXXXX XXXXX R00855 NAMESPACE R00856 ENABLE CONDSTORE QRESYNC R00857 LIST "" "*" RETURN (SUBSCRIBED) The last command's result is broken into several TCP/IP packages, evolution breaks the stream after receiving the first one and errors out on parsing the last unfinished line. The other mail clients or manual IMAP commands aggregate the results and wait for the IMAP end sequence of the LIST command. This is a regression wrt 3.8.x as this worked nicely up to the upgrade to F20/evolution 3.10.x. Tagged as high severity as anyone with a larger number of mailboxes in his account will not be able to use evolution.