Re: [Evolution] Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync

[Juan Martinez <martinez eecs cwru edu>]

Is there a way to share folders between pine and evolution while
filtering with procmail?


On 4 Dec 2001, Not Zed wrote:

> Date: 04 Dec 2001 08:42:18 +1030
> From: Not Zed <notzed ximian com>
> To: Fred Chagnon <fchagnon corp attcanada ca>
> Cc: evolution ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
>
> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 06:24, Fred Chagnon wrote:
> > > An eaiser fix is to just remove the .ev-summary file in the folder, that
> > > way you dont lose your messages at least.
> > >
> > > It happens because it tried to re-fresh the summary to match the folder,
> > > but after doing that, it still didn't make sense.  i.e. it tried to load
> > > a message from a specific spot in the file, but the message wasn't
> > > there.  The summary is like an index of the mailbox contents, which
> > > includes a 'summary' of each message (like subject, etc), as well as
> > > (for mbox files) a pointer to the start of the message inside the mbox.
> > > The error is basically when that pointer doesn't match the file.
> > >
> > > Is there anything that happens to start it happening?  Like running out
> > > of disk or something like that?  There's a long-outstanding bug for this
> > > one, but i haven't a clue how to fix it.
> > >
> > > Theoretically it should only happen if the mailbox is modified by
> > > another client *while* evolution has the mailbox locked and does
> > > processing on it.  Or perhaps if you run out of disk space.  It should
> > > alos automatically repair itself when it can, but obviuosly this isn't
> > > happening either.
> >
> > Thanks. This is very helpful. The problem actually hasn't happened in
> > awhile. I've got 1.0 running now as well, so I'll hope that it's somehow
> > disppeared for good.
>
> Ahh good, hopefully yes.
>
> > The folders shouldn't be open by any other applications. I use procmail
> > to filter my mail into stand ~/mail/ folders which are all symlinked to
> > ~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/..
>
> Uh, this actually IS the sort of problem I was talking about.  If you do
> this, you will definetly be accessing the folders with another
> application while evolution is. But so long as procmail actually locks
> the folders, it should be safe (if it doesn't, well you could lose
> mail).
>
> You may want to investigate using 'maildir' as your mailbox format, with
> that you can have pine and evolution point directly to the same tree
> with no problems.
>
> Hopefully at some point we'll support having multiple subdirs with our
> 'spool' type (its listed as 'mbox spool files' in the account creation
> wizard), and then you should just be able to point evolution at your
> pine files directly.  Still, locking needs to be performed the same way
> by procmail and evolution for this to work.
>
> > I need to do it this way so I have pine read out of ~/mail/ and access
> > my mail remotely from a terminal.
> >
> > But the two mail clients are never running simultaneously.
>
> Yeah but procmail will write to the folders as mail arrives.
>
> > Anyway, I'll pay more attention to how it happens should it happen again
> > and keep you posted.
>
> Cool.
>
>
>
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