[Possible Bug] Email sync without email client installed, spawning numerous copies of folders
asked 2014-11-20 18:21:59 +0200
In short: the native email apps' folder view was chock- full of copies of the same folder names over and over again. Below is the whole story from start to end, and a question: am I possibly correct in my thoughts about the cause of it, and can it do any harm to the system in a longer run?
When doing a factory reset about two months ago, I backed up only the settings/ accounts, and got rid of all the apps I didn't deem necessary at the moment. This included the native email client, so I went a couple of months without any emails coming to the phone (obviously). Yesterday I finally re- installed it, and was quite surprised when I opened the folder view: there where literally hundreds of copies in semi- random order of the Gmail main folder and the sub- folders, and none of those which I tried, would sync, except the few solitary ones at the top of the list.
I removed the account and email app, did a reboot and then re- installed app and added the Gmail account again, which solved the issue.
After giving it some thought, I came to a conclusion: as I hadn't for some reason (forgetfulness, propably :) ) deactivated the Gmail account (or set it to manual sync), it had tried to sync the mail account to the phone every half an hour for nearly two months, and when finally an email client was installed, dumped all of those syncs in the app...
Now, the question again: am I possibly correct in my thoughts about the cause of this, and can it do any harm to one's system in a longer run, or if multiple accounts behave the same simultaneously?
Notes:
-I did a search (as you do), but didn't find anything even resembling this.
-I'm not a programmer in any way, so you have to take this as a "layman's" interpretation of the issue.
-The phone is running update 9, and the only email account ever synced to it is the Gmail account mentioned.
Sorry for the long-winded text, and thanks for your time! Kayakist
Edit on 20.11. : Changed the title to be more accurate
I seemed to have reproduced the bug. Was trying to fix imap syncing to server. This worked after some time by renameing servers trash folder to "Deleted items". Now folders are syncing. And folders that have old mails marked as deleted on server duplicate on every sync. Finally even deleting mails on jolla also deletes from server, with the slightly annoying feature of making duplicates in Deleted items on server.
I´ll try your approach and see if it fixes issue.
Elias ( 2015-01-29 00:28:04 +0200 )edit