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Bug 574534 - Evolution Mail and Calendar: mail spool cuto to zero ...
Evolution Mail and Calendar: mail spool cuto to zero ...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.24.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
: 574533 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 543389
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-08 10:44 UTC by jerry
Modified: 2009-07-27 04:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description jerry 2009-03-08 10:44:19 UTC 
mail spool cuto to zero -- loosing all mail

since a some days I've learned to copy my /var/mail/mailbox file elsewhere to avoid loosing mail again and again.

I could not deduce a definitive pattern, when it occurs.  But when I have some new mail and some spam and change selection from the inbox folder elsewhere and back to the inbox than I see error "can't get message" (or alike - german version here) and the mail spool file is empty.

Workaround: xkill evolution; copy the backup of the mail spool into it's original place; rm -rf ~/.evolution/mail/spool/var/mail/*; restart evolution; hope for the best (often repeat twice here); delete all mails you want to delete in sequence and expunge folder (no other actions); create a new backup copy of the mail spool.


Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid)
Gnome Release: 2.24.1 2008-10-24 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.24.1
Comment 1 Akhil Laddha 2009-03-08 13:55:27 UTC 
*** Bug 574533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 733f6qi3 2009-03-08 18:38:16 UTC 
the priority should be Immediate and severity "critical"
Comment 3 Srinivasa Ragavan 2009-06-20 14:31:42 UTC 
Can you try with a newer version of evolution and confirm? 2.24.1 was way old and lots of fixes went in since then.
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2009-07-27 04:15:30 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug; however, closing due to lack of
response of the reporter, sorry. if you still see this issue with a current
release of evolution (2.26.3 or later), please reopen. thanks in advance.