Bug 446539

Summary: evo creates duplicate mails in imap folder
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description David Woodhouse 2008-05-14 23:36:27 UTC
A weird thing just happened. I think Evolution just copied _every_ mail in my
bugzilla folder, and now I have two copies of each one -- all the new ones
marked as unread.

When I selected the folder, it took a few seconds to open as usual, but then the
number of unread mails just kept counting up, one at a time. I'm sure it was
Evolution because after I killed Evolution and investigated, I see that all the
mails show Evolution's characteristic corruption of whitespace in headers, as
described in bug 79739 (sic) in 2002:

-X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary:
-	Content analysis details:   (-3.6 points, 5.0 required)
-	pts rule name              description
-	---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
-	-4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED      RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/,
medium trust
-	[209.132.177.92 listed in list.dnswl.org]
-	0.4 SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION     Attempt to obfuscate words in Subject:
+X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org
+	summary: Content analysis details:   (-3.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule
+	name              description ---- ----------------------
+	-------------------------------------------------- -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED  
+	RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [209.132.177.92
+	listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.4 SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION     Attempt to obfuscate
+	words in Subject:


I'm also fairly sure I saw 'CREATE' streaming past when I straced the imap
server, before I killed Evolution.

It hasn't done it again after restarting it. I've never seen anything like this
before. It may be relevant that I recently ran my 'archive mail' script, from
http://david.woodhou.se/archivemail.sh -- although that's no excuse.

I haven't got round to building my own Evolution for F9; this is unmolested
evolution-data-server-2.22.1-2.fc9 and evolution-2.22.1-2.fc9

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-05-15 01:06:42 UTC
This kind of thing has happened to me before when I accidentally drag-n-drop a
folder.  It's especially fun when you drag-n-drop the folder you're viewing into
the message list -- keeps duplicating messages ad infinitum.

Think that might've been what happened here?

The evolution-remove-duplicates package might help you clean up the damage.

Comment 3 Mike Chambers 2009-03-07 14:34:49 UTC
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. 

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Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2009-03-07 16:06:55 UTC
I suppose it's possible that I could have done that. Is it possible to disable drag-and-drop of folders? I've _never_ wanted to do that, and it's a horrid thing when it actually happens. I live in fear of my father accidentally doing it.

Dropping the _current_ folder into the message list and thus duplicating everything in it sounds like an entirely stupid thing to 'support'.

Comment 5 David Woodhouse 2009-03-07 16:07:32 UTC
Besides, evo should be using COPY for that, not CREATE. That way, it wouldn't corrupt all the mail while it was at it...

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