Re: [Evolution] evolution problem

[Todd Ness <Todd Ness eds com>]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:16 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:25 -0600, Ness, Todd wrote:
> > This morning, I have been getting quite a few hangs, and “Lost
> > connections to backend Exchange process” errors.
> 
> There have been a number of bugs fixed in 2.12.1, FWIW.  However, a
> number of known bugs remain.
> 
> When I get into a state like this I (a) shut down evo, (b) make sure all
> evolution processes are gone (with kill or pkill or whatever), then (c)
> remove all cached mail from my exchange account:
> 
> 	rm -rf ~/.evolution/exchange ~/.evolution/mail/exchange
> 
> if you have other types of accounts (POP or IMAP), as I do, be careful
> to delete just the "exchange" directories.
> 
> After this Evo will be slow to start the first time as it recreates the
> inbox cache, and the first delete will also be slow as it recreates the
> deleted items folder cache.  But, it should solve all your connectivity
> issues.
> 
> These days I have to do this every few days, mainly due to this bug:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478151
> 
> which is still happening consistently even on the very latest SVN
> checkout.
> 
Well that worked magic for me, things are back to normal, and as an
added bonus this started the filters working on the exchange inbox which
I had given up on getting an answer on.

Thank you Paul