GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 619618
"Error while Filtering Selected Message - Cannot append message to mbox file: Success"
Last modified: 2012-04-20 11:56:25 UTC
For some emails, when I select them and press ctrl-y, I get the "Error while Filtering Selected Message. Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/peter/.evolution/mail/local/Listen.sbd/Aktive Piraten: Success" I haven't found a definitive rule on how to reproduce it, but the cases I could isolate did involve umlauts. I also encountered this maybe related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/585375 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue May 25 14:54:19 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1963): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (nautilus:1986): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1994): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (firefox:2108): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Maybe it is not related to umlauts. I found other occasions where the subject does not involve umlauts. But there are a lot of failures including emails with an attachment called "1.eml". This seems some specific format to send emails, which I don't know how to reproduce.
Just check in case your destination folder has exceeded 2GB, i meant size of mbox for particular folder. Evolution doesn't append messages if folder size has exceeded beyond 2GB.
My ~/.evolution is only 158MB in total, including sub directories. Also most mails will be appended without problems, only few mails result in an error.
I just tried to move the mail manually into the folder, and I get the maybe more helpful error message: "Error while Moving messages into folder Listen/Aktive Piraten. Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/peter/.evolution/mail/local/Listen.sbd/Aktive Piraten: No such file or directory" However the file exists. Probably it isn't really a bug in the filter.
I wonder if the whitespace in the folder name is an issue...
I don't think so. I get the same with one word-folders: "Error while Moving messages into folder Listen/LLVM. Cannot append message to mbox file: /home/peter/.evolution/mail/local/Listen.sbd/LLVM: No such file or directory" If it happens I cannot move the specific email in _any_ folder. I think it depends on the email, whether the bug occurs or not.
I think the problem is just an effect of this more basic problem: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620858
Hi preineke, if you have time, could you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 3.2.3 or 3.0.3 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version" field and provide information about your distribution? Thanks a lot.
Sorry, I made the switch to Thunderbird two years ago, and I don't use Evolution anymore. You can find information about my distro and the version of Evolution I used back then in my first post.
Closing as OBSOLETE as per last comment.