GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 327982
evolution bug, "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync"
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:51:09 UTC
This bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/27014 "I just opened Evolution, and Evolution autodownloaded my e-mail. Immediatly a window pops up called "Evolution Error". It gives this error message: "Error while Storing folder 'Inbox'. Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync" Then I click OK. Then the same window with the same error message pops up again. I click OK again. Then I notice that my received e-mail message (1 in the Inbox folder) is copied by Evolution, so that it appears in my Inbox twice (I'm sure that it is not the sender sending the e-mail twice). I also notice that there is new mail in a subfolder of my Inbox called "Ubuntu Bugzilla" (which is used for all bugzilla mail, which gets filtered and is placed in that folder). I open the "Ubuntu Bugzilla" folder, when I open it I got the error message again. I didn't see an e-mail appearing twice in this folder however. When I click the Inbox folder, and then the "Ubuntu Bugzilla" folder again, the error message appears again after I've clicked on the "Ubuntu Bugzilla" folder. This bug isn't harmful, but it is annoying. ... > Thanks for your bug report. What type of mail account do you use? ... I use a POP3 account, is that what you mean? I'm using Dapper Drake now with Evolution 2.5.4. I thought the bug was gone because it didn't occur for some days, but today it did. So I can still confirm it."
Hmm, ok... First of all, a quick workaround/solution. Please see the first few comments of bug 213072 and especially bug 213072 comment 30, since the location of the mail folders changed since the original report. Deleteing the file ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary should solve this "mismatch". At least for the Inbox. All files named like your Evo mail folders with an extension of .ev-summary are indexing files only. You can safely remove them (with Evo closed first), and they will be recreated next time you start Evo. May take a while for large folders. Note: In the example above, the "Inbox" named file holds your mails. Do not touch this file. Since you get the same message for your "Ubuntu Bugzilla" folder: Based on your description above, the relevant indexing file should be inside the "Inbox.sbd" dir. Feel free to contact me directly, if you are unsure how to work around this by the discussions above. Sebastien should know where to find me. ;)
Anyway, this is a duplicate. Thanks for bringing it up again though, I'm going to raise the prirority of the original bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213072 ***
Thank you Karsten for the explanation, I've followed downstream with that
7 years now from the last comment... bug is STILL there.