Nathan Stine ([info]stinerman) wrote in [info]debian,
@ 2007-12-27 13:44:00
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Evolution not playing well with Gmail
Just today I started getting odd errors with Evolution regarding IMAP errors via Gmail:

IMAP command failed: Unknown Mailbox: [Gmail]/All Mail (Failure)
IMAP command failed: UID not allowed now.

and other similar errors.

As far as I can tell, my mail is still being delivered properly, so this is really just a cosmetic problem for now.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Oh, and I track Lenny, so this is in regards to evolution 2.10.3-1.

EDIT: The problem seems to be resolved by unchecking "automatically synchronize remote mail locally" in the receiving options tab.

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[info]thegreatdoogie
2007-12-27 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Is this only happening with Evolution, or other email clients as well?

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[info]demonbane
2007-12-27 09:33 pm UTC (link)
I've been seeing the same errors. My guess is that that's gmail's way of saying that you're checking your account too often. I typically see that error come up when I've been heavily using my account through Evolution for a few minutes.

Since Evolution doesn't support IDLE it actually does a fresh check of the account anytime you do... well... almost anything. Expunging a folder, switching folders, moving a message, writing a message, etc, all causes a manual check of the server. And I know that gmail is kind of particular about not checking your email more often than once every 5 minutes, so I just assumed that's why it was happening. I could be wrong, but it seems a likely culprit.

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