Bug 558646 - Some messages display with no subject
Summary: Some messages display with no subject
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution-mapi
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-25 22:09 UTC by Zackary Deems
Modified: 2010-01-27 15:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-01-27 15:07:03 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla 608258 0 None None None Never

Description Zackary Deems 2010-01-25 22:09:24 UTC
Description of problem:
Evolution intermittently retrieves incomplete message information from exchange via MAPI.  Some messages come over without a subject.  usually when this happens, clicking on the message results in evolution claiming:
Unable to retrieve message
Could not get message

Closing evolution and reloading it will occasionally let you view the message contents, but in cases where the subject is not brought over the first time, there is no apparent means of forcing a full re-sync of the entire message.

Further information - when evolution is initially configured and is performing the initial retrieval of messages from exchange, it always fails out after obtaining some percentage of the messages in the associated Inbox/folders.  Subsequent refreshes allow it to eventually complete, but I have yet to see a single initial load complete successfully.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Initially saw this behaviour on the stock fedora evolution 2.28.2-1 and evolution-mapi 0.28.2-1.  I've since built 2.29.5 evolution and 0.29.5 of evolution-mapi and still see the same problems.

How reproducible:
This is all very inconsistent.  If evolution runs long enough, I will eventually have messages come across with no subject.  I will also eventually receive messages that display no body.  If I verify these messages in the outlook web client, they always have subjects / bodies.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start evolution
2. Leave evolution running
3. 
  
Actual results:
Messages eventually get downloaded incompletely and never fully sync.

Expected results:
Messages come across with full headers/contents intact.

Additional info:  It is worth noting that the contents of the mail account in question are somewhat large (>6000 messages).  Either way, if there were some way to force evolution to re-retrieve a specific message (or a group of messages), or do a periodic resync of the contents of what shows in evolution with what's on the server, the problem would seem to vanish.

Comment 1 Zackary Deems 2010-01-25 22:15:06 UTC
Further - The system in question is running 64bit fedora 12, and it is connecting to an exchange 2007 server via MAPI.

Calendar items do not seem to fully/properly sync either.  Some things show, some do not.

Contact lists in Exchange come over to evolution as an individual contact.  Contact lists in evolution do not seem to translate back to exchange.

(yes, my apologies, probably 3 different bugs being described here.  I'll gladly split them out however you see fit)

Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2010-01-27 15:07:03 UTC
Moving this upstream for better visibility.
Please see [1] for further updates.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608258


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.