GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 598249
Evolution creates strange folders
Last modified: 2011-11-24 08:42:20 UTC
Recently evolution has started to create strange folders from time to time. For example I have a folder called "Buildsys" and suddenly had a "Buildsys.tmp" folder that I definitely did not create. The folder contained a couple of mails, but all were duplicates from the Buildsys folder. LANG=C ls -l .evolution/mail/local/Computer.sbd/Fedora.sbd/Buildsys.tmp* -rw-------. 1 chris chris 25352 Sep 28 13:37 .evolution/mail/local/Computer.sbd/Fedora.sbd/Buildsys.tmp -rw-rw-r--. 1 chris chris 13 Oct 13 11:20 .evolution/mail/local/Computer.sbd/Fedora.sbd/Buildsys.tmp.cmeta -rw-------. 1 chris chris 11264 Sep 28 13:37 .evolution/mail/local/Computer.sbd/Fedora.sbd/Buildsys.tmp.ibex.index -rw-------. 1 chris chris 2800 Sep 28 13:37 .evolution/mail/local/Computer.sbd/Fedora.sbd/Buildsys.tmp.ibex.index.data Today I noticed a folder called "gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel". I can open the folder and there are no mails inside, but i can not run any other actions on it such as move, copy or rename. When I try to view it's properties I get an error message which says (roughly translated): "Could not open the folder gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel: not a regular file" It's only a directory, no metadata files. $ LANG=C ls -l .evolution/mail/local/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/* -rw-r--r--. 1 chris chris 3072 Oct 10 01:27 .evolution/mail/local/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/folders.db $ LANG=C stat .evolution/mail/local/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/ File: `.evolution/mail/local/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/' Size: 4096 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 495739 Links: 2 Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 500/ chris) Gid: ( 500/ chris) Access: 2009-10-12 11:16:20.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2009-10-10 01:27:38.000000000 +0200 Change: 2009-10-10 01:27:38.000000000 +0200 Version number of affected component: evolution-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64
The complete text of the error message is: Error while Opening folder mbox:/home/chris/.evolution/mail/local#gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel. Cannot get folder 'gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel': not a regular file. I realized that the folder was created by a message that had "Post to:" enabled. For some mails evolution replies to "Post to:" instead of the reply-to address of that mail. And it doesn't reply to that folder but leaves the messages in the "Sent" folder, but that's a different bug. This one is about folders that evolution creates for some reason. Where does the tmp folder come from?
Can happen when crashing. Have seen this here too a few months ago.
Can you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 3.0.3 or 3.2.0 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version" field? Thanks a lot.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of Evolution.
Sorry for the lack of feedback. The problem hasn't occurred in evolution >= 2.30.