GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315531
Evolution bug with mbox emails
Last modified: 2005-09-09 08:07:51 UTC
This is a quite urgent bug which first has shown up a few days before Evolution 2.4.0 got released. I initially thought this might have been a short time issue that got solved already but unfortunately this is still existing and highly dangerous. When starting Evolution I and walking through the mailboxes as you can see in picture 1-3 then I keep getting these dialogs. Quite often it's also so when I pop3 my emails and they show up in the mailboxes I end up in having double entries in the list. That is it looks like the mails are there two times even the mail count increases by two. Now I can read the mails and they even get marked as being read but.... .. as soon as I start quitting evolution and restarting it, the mails show up as being unread again but this time only one entry is there ... I already did following things: a) quitting evolution b) stopping evolution-data-server c) diving in the .evolution maildir and removing all index files, summary files etc. what remains are just the mbox files containing the mails itself. d) after new start of evolution the index files are being created again and everything seem to be working ok - but not for long, until the same issues happen over and over again. What I also did was a drastical kill of .evolution dir in my homedir as well as entirely removing the .gconf entries and starting evolution from scratch with new profile etc. The problems unfortunately seem to reappear.
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In this example you see this happening for the KDE Bugzilla mbox, but I can confirm this to happen with everything else too, Sent, Outbox, Vim, MorphOS and whatever.
old known bug. workaround: remove the '.ev-summary' files for the appropriate mailbox. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213072 ***
As I wrote in the initial bugreport I already REMOVED everything except the mbox files from the appropriate mailbox and once this has shown to not help permanently I created a new profile which also has shown to not help. So why do you suggest a 'workaround' to me that I already tried and which I already reported to not solve anything ? I am going to comment to the other bug as well.