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Error with pinging an imap server, when I work offline

Bug #38154 reported by Keywan Tonekaboni
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Evolution
Fix Released
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Ubuntu dapper-updates

Bug Description

Since I use Dapper I have a strange and senseless error, while I am working offline:

"Error while Pinging IMAP server imap4.vr.in-berlin.de.

You must be working online to complete this operation"

This error comes 5-10minutes after I go offline and then every X minutes (maybe 10 or 15minutes), after I click on ok.

I am working offline in evolution, because I don't have a network connection and I didn't want that evolution try to connect a server. Why evolution tries to "ping" an IMAP server, when I am offline. This seems to be a bug.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream and they have a patch for it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333821

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assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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j^ (j) wrote :

will this patch make it into dapper?
rather annoying this popup.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Upstream has not used that pach yet and dapper is frozen, marking as candidate for a dapper-updates upload when it's fixed upstream

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status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

fixed upstream, if the fix works fine we will evaluate backporting it for dapper (or updating to the new stable version with it)

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the issue:

 evolution (2.7.91-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - fix imap server being pinged when using the offline imap mode
       (Ubuntu: #38154)
     - fix segfault with the search bar (Ubuntu: #53869)
     - fix the "send and receive" dialog having scrollbars when not required
       (Ubuntu: #54251)
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated the evolution-data-server requirement to the current version
   * debian/evolution-mail.desktop:
     - fixed the bugzilla informations to work better with the new bug-buddy
     - specify the Encoding (Ubuntu: #33566),
       change suggested by Emmet Hikory <email address hidden>
   * debian/patches/04_autoreconf.patch:
     - updated

Changed in evolution:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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importance: Unknown → Critical
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Jean-Christophe Baptiste (jc-baptiste) wrote :

This bug had disappeared for me until Lucid, but it came back with 10.10.
Was it patched or fixed accordingly ?

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Roger Filmyer (rfilmyer) wrote :

I can confirm that it has reappeared; I'm getting the error with evolution 2.28.3 and the default 10-minute refresh time for mail.

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Matthias Schmidt (mschmidt) wrote :

Confirm that the bug appears. Evolution 2.32.2 on 11.04/amd64. Can no longer fetch my email via IMAP.

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Matthias Schmidt (mschmidt) wrote :

Quick workaround that worked for me: remove $HOME/.evolution. This forced Evolution to sync the mails again including new ones.

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