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Subject:    Re: [Evolution] Evolution ate my Inbox
From:       "Chris Worley" <worleys () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-20 0:16:44
Message-ID: f3177b9e0807191716t5156cdc8s4f6a5d4a01fa3e1f () mail ! gmail ! com
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Never mind.  I was yo-yo'ing Evolution... not changing any files...
just seeing how many emails it would show before crashing... and with
no changes whatsoever, on one of the iterations it found everything
again (and subsequent hard restarts keep showing the right number of
messages).

Go figure.

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Chris Worley <worleys@gmail.com> wrote:
> None of the "delete cache/database" ideas help, and this is not an
> Exchange-related Inbox (it's my local Inbox, served by locally by
> Fetchmail using IMAP).  After deleting the caches/database, Evolution
> now crashes while writing these.
>
> I think the Inbox file itself is somehow corrupt, and I need a way to
> figure out how (i.e. an Inbox parsing utility).
>
> Note that I'm seeing email in the Inbox up to about a year ago... all
> subsequent email are in the Inbox, but Evolution doesn't show them.
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 09:07 -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
>>> Evolution 2.8.2 on OpenSuSE 10.2.
>>>
>>> In the year I've been running OpenSuSE, Evolution has never shut down
>>> properly.  Either it crashes or hangs or the system crashes.  Even
>>> when I've tried to exit Evolution gracefully, it just hangs... and I
>>> eventually kill it.  No problem... when it starts back up, everything
>>> is fine... until yesterday.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, for the first time, it exited when I asked.  This was
>>> followed by a reboot.  Upon restarting Evolution, it showed ~100
>>> emails in my Inbox (rather than ~30k).  Every time I restart it, it
>>> shows a different message count... but still <2k.
>>>
>>> My ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox file is ~1GB.  Manual inspection
>>> shows everything there (I see the recent messages that Evolution is no
>>> longer showing in my Inbox).
>>>
>>> There must be some sort of tag in the file that's lumped most of the
>>> email into one message.
>>>
>>> What should I look for and how to repair?
>>
>> I have a similar problem, reported on this list with the following
>> message (slightly edited).  You can see the whole discussion by
>> searching the archive for the subject "Evolution fails to see some
>> messages in Inbox"
>>
>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:31:18 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>> I see no messages displayed in Inbox earlier than Sept 11, 2007, though
>>> I know there are earlier ones.  If I search Inbox for a message that I
>>> know is there, received in 2005, it's not found.  But if I search the
>>> *Account*, rather than Inbox, for the same message it is found.
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain this?
>>>
>>> Inbox is local and is rather large:
>>>         3032 unread 8014 total
>>
>>
>>
>
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