Bug 684310

Summary: Subscribed folders disappear from left-hand pane after restart of evolution
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Aaron Sowry <aaron>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Evolution - after entering password
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Evolution - after re-subscribing to 3 folders none

Description Aaron Sowry 2011-03-11 18:19:14 UTC
Description of problem:
IMAP subscribed folders do not remain visible in left-hand pane after restarting application. Right-clicking on the account and selecting 'Manage subscriptions' shows that I have a number of subscribed folders selected, but it is not until I un-check/re-check them again that they show up in the left-hand pane.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register an IMAP account and subscribe to a number of folders within that account
2. Quit evolution, and start it up again
3. Watch your subscribed folders disappear from the left-hand pane
  
Actual results:
You need to re-subscribe to your folders for them to be visible

Expected results:
The folders should remain visible after restarting the application

Additional info:
When starting, evolution appears to read from the subscribed folders, but they don't show up in the left-hand pane. So it seems like a display issue.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2011-03-14 08:17:20 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. Are you using IMAP or IMAP+ provider, please? I suppose you've set "Show only subscribed folders" in the account preferences. The thing is that subscriptions are managed by IMAP server itself and evolution is only asking for the list of subscribed folders on each start and makes a cache of locally known subscribed folders. Maybe this list got corrupted or something.

In the recent time I heard about fastmail.fm having some issues with subscriptions, so is it your server too or you've a different one, please?

Comment 2 Aaron Sowry 2011-03-14 13:29:48 UTC
Created attachment 484183 [details]
Evolution - after entering password

Comment 3 Aaron Sowry 2011-03-14 13:36:41 UTC
Created attachment 484186 [details]
Evolution - after re-subscribing to 3 folders

Comment 4 Aaron Sowry 2011-03-14 13:40:07 UTC
I am using evolution against an internal IMAP (dovecot) server. Thunderbird works fine with subscribed folders against the same server.

I have attached 2 screenshots to hopefully make it clearer what is happening. Note that when I first start evolution (before entering my password), all subscribed folders are visible. After entering my password, they disappear again until I re-subscribe. These folders then disappear again on their own after some time, just as they do when I restart evolution.

Comment 5 Milan Crha 2011-03-15 10:55:04 UTC
I tried couple times and it seems to work fine here, but it's a different IMAP server. Try to close evolution and clear the local IMAP cache, whether it'll help (I'm thinking if it isn't broken anyhow). The cache is located in:
~/.local/share/evolution/mail/imap/<account>/

when you run evolution from console, is it claiming anything there?

Comment 6 Aaron Sowry 2011-03-16 06:40:09 UTC
No relevant error messages from the console.

I tried removing ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/imap/<account>/folders{,.db} and restarting evolution, but experienced the same problem. I'll have a more thorough look at the local folder cache this weekend.

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