Bug 239667

Sounds like the socket is getting closed prematurely and all subsequent I/O
calls are returning EBADF.  And unfortunately Evolution's approach to error
handling is to simply pop up a dialog any time anything goes wrong.

I'll dig into this and see if I can spot where the socket might be getting
closed, or whether there's a smarter way to deal with errors like this.

In the meantime, I'd be curious to know whether the problem still occurs after
upgrading to Evolution 2.10 (in Fedora 7).

I've opened an upstream bug about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437458

Created attachment 154488 [details]
.evolution file structure

I have not had any errors on any other email client (thunderbird, outlook,
outlook express) so if the socket is getting closed prematurely no other client
is reporting these types of errors.  The most bizarre thing is that on my FC6
system at work which is also running the latest version of evolution seems
fine, the only difference that I know of is that it was configured and working
prior to updating to this latest release.  I was able to test this on Fedora 7
and was able to replicate the issue in the same way.  By the way I also
configure this test on Fedora 7 to not synchronize all messages, here is the
.evolution file structure (see attachment).

I imagine it's Evolution that's closing the socket prematurely, not the mail
server.  Then it likely leaves the dangling file descriptor lying around and
subsequently tries to reuse it.  But I'm speculating.

Thanks for the extra info.  That should help narrow the search for when and
where this broke.

Is this problem still present on Fedora 8 Test 2 or later?

Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the
updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or
Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know
in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we
will have to close this bug as CANTFIX.

Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter.

[This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Evolution.
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Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to
investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the
information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not
reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the
reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest
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reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional
information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

{This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion
closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot
and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}