Evolution - keeps losing mail filters

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 16:23 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 23:58 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > suddenly 'lost' all my incoming mail filters. I have no
> > idea why it happens, all I see is a yellow banner saying:
> >  
> >    Mail filters automatically updated.
> >    The filter rule "Xymon" has been modified to account for the
> >    deleted folder "Xymon".
> >  
> > The folder name (here 'Xymon') changes for each of the filters I have.
> > The filters actually still exist, but they now do nothing.
> 
> Not that I have the answer, but to help you (and others) narrow it down:
> Are these local folders, or remote folders (e.g. on an IMAP server, or
> over NFS)?
> 
> If they're remote, perhaps it doesn't wait long enough to find them,
> before declaring them deleted.

Sorry, yes I should have said that these are remote (dovecot) IMAP
folders. Although the remote server is fine, my ISP connection can be
attrocious at times! For that reason I too wondered if it was something
to do with talking to the server.

I had a look at the 'updates-testing' repo but there were no releases of
evolution waiting. However, I did find in the gnome (evolution) bugzilla
reports[1] about folders being lost (etc) when laptop users suspend
their device and are using a remote IMAP server. Although not exactly
the same, the circumstances - loss of network - are similar. There was
no mention of mail filters, but the bug was that the loss of network was
not being reported correctly. In my case it could be that evolution
thinks the network is there but the folders aren't - hence the filters
get changed to remove the folder names. Unfortunately this doesn't seem
to have been fixed until the evolution 3.9 branch, and I see that F20/21
will be using branches 3.9 and 3.10. I may take a stab at rebuilding the
F20 source RPMS of evolution and evolution-data-server on my F19 system,
but it may be too dependent on other things for it to work.




Thanks,

John.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693101

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