Re: [Evolution] Evolution mail component keeps dying - but fixed

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:25, Tim Boring wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:09, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 19:48, John Weber wrote:
> > > I think I fixed it now after rebuilding my evolution directory bit by
> > > bit and narrowed it down to one of the meta folders in the
> > > ~/evolution/local/Inbox directory. I deleted everything in there except
> > > mbox and the problem seems fixed.
> >
> > Hmmm.  And you still have an Inbox in your folder tree?  That shouldn't
> > happen.  :-)
> >
> > I guess what you did was just removing the .ibex and .ev-summary files
> > and keeping the mbox and {folder,local}-metadata.xml files?
>
> I tried this and it didn't work for me on my FreeBSD system.  What I
> ended up doing after reading someone's post about using Mozilla's mail
> client was to set up Balsa and have the balsa client delete my recent
> messages from the mail server at my isp.  then i deleted my ~/evolution
> directory and restored it from backup from yesterday.  Everything is
> back up and running just fine now.

I did something similar, but used a little python script, since I
don't haveany other email clients.

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