Re: [Evolution] Error trying to expunge messages

[Ben Stringer <ben burbong com>]

Hi Simone,

I also had this problem, first experienced around Evolution 0.99. I
believe it started when I was deleting many emails one after the other
(pressing the trashcan icon over and over again), although this is just
a hunch and hard to back up with proof.

In my situation several of my oldest messages in the folder (I keep many
thousands of messages in my Inbox) could not be read.

I ended up making a copy of my Inbox and hand editting the copy to
remove what I believed were irrecoverable messages. When I started up
Evo again, the irrecoverables where restored, and my expunge problem had
gone away. I *DO NOT* recommend you do this unless you are confident in
preserving your valuable messages.

I suspect a corruption in one of the following:
$HOME/evolution/local/Inbox/
  - mbox
  - mbox.ev-summary
  - mbox.ibex.index
  - mbox.ibex.index.data

so hopefully someone else on the list can explain the ordering and
interaction between these files, and if there are any tools to correct
corruptions.

Cheers, Ben

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 21:18, Simone Peruzzi wrote:
>  Hi to all the member of this mailing list.
>
> I'm here to disturb you just to know, why since few days to now i can't
> Expunge anymore my Evolution mailbox.
> I use Evolution 1.2.0, and when i try to expunge the deleted messages i
> received this error:
> "Error while 'Expunging folder':
>  Error storing 'Local folders/inbox': Summary and folder mismatch, even
> after a sync'"
>
> Do you know how to fix this particular problem? By the way the
> application is working fine...i can receive or send message...just the
> problem on erase the messages.
> Many thanks by now...
> Simone.
>
>
>
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