Re: [Evolution-hackers] Error storing summary.

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Sankar,

Yet another solution for this problem will be to (re)write the local
backend using the camel-offline-folder model, where every mail in the
folder is stored in a distributed fashion, avoiding one huge mbox or
huge files in a directory and also solves issues like unlink the file to
delete a mail etc.

-Srini
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:51 +0530, Sankar P wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 23:57 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > OK, so i managed to fuck up my POP Inbox for the third time in a few
> > weeks, means: every time i switch to another folder i now get an "Error
> > storing summary" (or something like that). i've seen some reports about
> > this in bugzilla, e.g.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532049 . the last time i ran
> > into this psankar told me to manually edit the mbox file and remove the
> > offending email that misses the From line. this is not fun anymore when
> > having a 600MB inbox file. a normal user is not willing to learn vim and
> > emacs, me neither. 
> 
> I guess there should have been some recent commit which catalyzes this
> break-up-of-mbox. So, we need to just analyze and find out on what
> scenarios this is caused.
> 
> Earlier, we used to get a folder-summary-mismatch and will not proceed
> at all. I have seen some heavy users being saved from that trouble, once
> we put in the code to auto-fix the .summary file.
> 
> Broken mboxes are one scenario which we have not handled so far and it
> will be fixed. May be we will provide: evolution-fix-broken-mbox which
> will handle them. (/me remembers fejj's mail sent 2 days back)
> 
> However, there are certain important things than fixing broken mboxes,
> like moving the summary to a db so that you don't have to hold every
> msginfo etc. which we are currently working on. So, operations like mbox
> recovery will have to wait for some time.  We will try to identify why
> this has started happening frequently for you and will fix this soon,
> probably tracked in a bgo bug.
> 
> 
> 
> Philip,
> 
> Converting the local store from mbox to maildir will be a better option
> for the local accounts. It might create new problems and I will analyze
> about this and will come up with a fix if it does not cause any issue. 
> 
> And sqlite databases disk-blocks aren't spectacularly closely-written,
> when I last iogrinded (ground?) them. And mboxes/maildir are readable by
> all sane mail clients and hence makes sense to stick to some common
> standard than a single-filed-db. May be I will make a study of this
> after the db-based summary work is done.
> 
> 
> > if nobody's working on a fix i should consider
> > switching to thunderbird.
> 
> We will fix this bug as it is critical and comes from a long time user,
> whom we want to keep happy :-) However, mail is a hog that tends to bite
> if it exceeds a limit, no matter which application we use and we will
> try to tame the beast.
> 
> > 
> > andre
>