Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
I am new to using Evolution, having previously used Thunderbird.
I set Evolution up with IMAP access, using the "imap+" option, to three
different accounts.
1) Yahoo account
2) gmail account
3) NTL World (Virgin Media) account that is I believe just another gmail account
All works well. I experimented with a few options and set the sent mail
and drafts folder to be the corresponding IMAP "folder" for each
account. I checked that on creating and saving a draft message that that
message appeared in the IMAP draft folder for each account, both as seen
in Evolution and on-line via the web portal connection to each account.
I did the same for sent mail. All worked well. I had been on-line at
this point.
I then wondered what would happen if I was off-line. So I went off-line,
I used two different methods, disconnecting the wireless connection and
by clicking on the Evolution on/off line icon in the bottom left of the
program window. Both methods seemed to produce the same results. This
was:
1) Go off-line
2) Create new message
3) Save message, by clicking on icon on menu bar. There is no message when you
do this to say if the save is or isn't successful.
4) After the save operation, immediately quit the message using the close
button (top left menu bar cross in red-circle). The message window closes with
no further dialog or prompt.
5) Now look for saved draft message. It can't be found. It is not in the
designated drafts folder (an IMAP "on-line" draft folder). I had previously set
the draft folder up for off-line access by right hand clicking on the folder
and setting this by a tick-box on the properties item). I also could not find
the message in any of the local folders.
6) I repeated this for all three account with the same behaviour.
7) The messages appear to have been lost. Well at least I couldn't find them to
re-open them to continue and send them.
Now it might be reasonable to suggest I should use a local folder for
drafts (the Evolution default), but I wanted to try to see if I could
synchronize send and drafts messages between machines using imap.
What I would hope is:
1) Evolution would not allow a save operation that did not not "work" and then
allow the use to quit the message window without any prompt.
2) If Evolution has saved the message it would be useful to make it clear to
the user where it has been saved.
Now having said all of this on quitting Evolution I did receive a
message pop-up window about I would lose some data (I can't remember the
exact message dialog box), and on selecting the safe option not to quit,
one of my closed message windows may have re-appeared. I can't be sure
about this as it could have been an open draft window that I had not
saved. It certainly was not all of the "missing" draft messages.
The other related item is it is not clear how to easily set up all on-line
folders in an account for off-line access. I thought I had done this in the
main settings, but then when right clicking on each folder:
Properties -> "Copy folder content for offline operation"
was not ticked. I seemed to have to individually set this for every folder, not
ideal. Have I missed an easy way to set this up so that any future created imap
folder would automatically be setup for off-line access?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 6 21:44:15 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick ubuntu-une
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714294
Title:
Evolution Does Not Appear to Correctly Save Draft Email Messages If
Using IMAP Folder and Offline
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