Re: [Evolution] Bad imap inbox

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 24 Jul 2001 14:56:20 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Just been through a very frustrating few days with evolution gradually
> becoming basicly unusable.  Gave up and opened the inbox (its imap)
> using netscape, and compacted the mailboxes.  Voila - a working, faster
> and reliable evolution again!  It seems that evolution needs simlar
> functionality to "fix" mailboxes that get errors in them for whatever
> reason.

That doesn't really make sense.

All compaction does is actually delete the messages that you've deleted.

Did you have thousands of deleted messages or something?  That would be
the only reason that operation would make any difference at all to
evolutions behaviour.