Re[2]: [Evolution] evolution hangs at start on some folders

[Fernando Pereira <fpereira flipdog com>]

On 03 Jan 2001 17:22:31 +0100 Andrea Dell'Amico <adellam link it> wrote:

> On 03 Jan 2001 00:05:47 -0500, Fernando Pereira wrote:
> > Andrea Dell'Amico wrote:
> > > some days ago I converted all email to evolution thanks to a script from
> > > Dan Winship. It's ~200MB divided in some hundred folders.
> > >
> > > I have a strange problem now. When starting, evolution hangs. If I
> > > remove some folders starts correctly. It seems that there's nothing
> > > wrong with those folders. I isolated the problem because I converted one
> > > subfolder at time.
> > I've observed exactly the same problem. But it can also happen to
> > folders created by Evolution itself, when Evolution crashes or freezes
>
> Observed that today, yes. But I think that the freeze is the conseguence
> of the folder problem, not the cause.
I created a new empty folder. Then I created a filter rule
to move messages from a certain sender to that folder, and applied the
filters to my inbox. At that point, Evolution froze. After killev, I
looked at the folder's mbox. It contained the messages that it should.
It was readable by Balsa and Emacs VM. But it caused Evolution to hang
at the splash screen, as I could prove by moving the folder away and
restarting. This behavior is consistent with your explanation. However,
the offending messages had been in my Inbox without causing any problem.
So, the problem is unlikely to be in Evolution's parsing of the messages
themselves, but it some expectation it has about their headers or
contents relative to their position in a folder or some other data.

-- F

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