GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 231107
Evolution deletes /var/spool/mail/ file
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Critical Version: 1.0.8 Synopsis: Evolution deletes /var/spool/mail/ file Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: Hi, Evolution reduced the filesize of my Mailfile in /var/spool/mail to Zero-Filesize. How it happend: I clicked Send/Receive to get some Mail from a Pop Account. Evolution stopped while getting the first message (this is what happens all the time, and I was trying to investigate it). I pressed Cancel (for the pop process) - nothing happend, i pressed Cancel All - nothing happend again, the windows stayed open. I moved the window to the side and klicked on a mail in my inbox (/var/spool...) to see if evolution stopped altogether. Evolution gave the error: message does not exist , or something similar. I decided to exit evolution and restart it. After exit it took a minute or so for the Send/Recive window to close. After restart my inbox was empty. After this happend I deleted also my Pop Mail Settings and createt a new pop mail. now that works again (I still dont know why that didnt work before). Unknown reporter: reuter@gdv.uni-hannover.de, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com. Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
that's what it is supposed to do.
Sorry, but I did not make myself clear enough: I did not try to get mails form my local mail account (via pop), but from a different one. I keep my local messages in /var/spool/mail/usrname an they stay there (normally). Concerning my generell problems with getting pop see also bug 231124 .
do you or do you not have an Evolution account that checks /var/spool/mail? if yes, then this is what is supposed to happen. if not, then Evolution isn't touching /var/spool/mail and is thus not the problem here.
I have two accounts: one mbox account with the local directory /var/spool/mail.. and one pop account that checks mails at an extern Internet Provider called GMX. Evolution is shurley not supposed to delete my local mails while trying to get mails from an extern pop account.
when you hit send&receive, it fetches from both accounts. not just the pop account, so yes - it *is* supposed to delete the /var/spool/mail file.
No, it is not supposed to do that and it has never done that before. It does not fetch mail from my mbox account. It always leaves it there. I do not get/fetch or transmit my mbox mail via pop or in any other way. I directly "look" into the file in /var/spool/mail/.. . Nothing is changed there, except if I delete messages there or drag and drop them to my local folders. The only mail, that I transmit/fetch is via pop from my GMX mail provider.
send me your config.xmldb file
well, I dunno. try upgrading to 1.1.1 and see if it still happens I guess. I don't see how/why evo would have truncated your spool, I suspect some other program did that or else you deleted all your mail (a lot of people in the past deleted all mail in their VFolders/UNMATCHED folder thinking it was a copy of all their mail and complained "evo deleted all my mail!" so I suspect something similar here) either way, can't fix this in 1.0.x anyway - because we won't be making another 1.0 release