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Bug 540574 - Evolution Mail and Calendar: My "Sent" folder has com...
Evolution Mail and Calendar: My "Sent" folder has com...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 522433
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-28 07:08 UTC by sc
Modified: 2009-08-21 12:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description sc 2008-06-28 07:08:10 UTC 
My "Sent" folder has completely disappeared. It is not longer visible in the interface, and whenever I send a message I get an error "Failed to append to mbox:/home/username/.evolution/mail/local#Sent: Cannot get fold `Sent': Value too large for defined data type"


Distribution: Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
Gnome Release: 2.22.2 2008-05-28 (Red Hat, Inc)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0
Comment 1 André Klapper 2008-06-28 11:43:36 UTC 
How big is the folder?
Comment 2 steve 2008-06-28 12:05:16 UTC 
2.1 GB
Comment 3 John Simpson 2008-08-06 17:38:28 UTC 
I have the same problem as of two days ago.

My sent folder is listed as being 2.0 GB (2152522276 bytes).

Any suggestions or direction would be appreciated.
Comment 4 steve 2008-08-07 13:18:21 UTC 
Glad to hear I'm not the only one - for better or worse!

I ended up having to make a backup copy of my 2.0+ GB Sent mail file, and more or less start over from scratch. I have been using evolution constantly since 2000, and am a bit disappointed in the lack of help with this issue.

In the mean time perfectly willing to perform any testing as necessary.
Comment 5 steve 2008-09-01 12:05:37 UTC 
The only way I was able to get my Sent messages back was to copy all 2.1 GB up to a mail server running IMAP, copy it to my imap mail directory, and finally re-download all 20,000+ messages via IMAP into two new folders creating in evolution (such that both folder would contain less than 2.0 GB each).
Comment 6 Akhil Laddha 2009-08-21 12:07:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 522433 ***