Re: [Evolution] Messages in message list do not correspond to messages in nmh folder

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:56, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 13:07, Michael D. Lind wrote:
>
> > Deleting messages in another email client will cause problems unless
> you
> > delete the mbox.ev-summary in the folder before reopening the folder
> in
> > Evolution.  
>
> Thanks very much for the suggestion: this kind of file is exactly what I
> was looking for. Unfortunately, this didn't work.
>
> (It's now clear that the problem is not caused simply by deleting
> messages in another email client, but by my having done done a "pack" on
> an nmh folder in exmh. This command renumbers the file names of messages
> so that there are no gaps: that is, it changes the actual names of the
> files containing messages (where in nmh, each message is in a separate
> file). Now, when Evolution looks for some messages, it uses the old file
> names because it has cached them somewhere, and so doesn't find them.)
>
> Other messages recently posted in this list have apparently given me the
> solution to the problem. This is to use the "killev" script and restart
> Evolution. Evidently, Evolution starts some subprocesses that cache
> message filenames and that don't get killed when one simply quits
> evolution.

eh... this would be news to me :-)

The evolution-mail component doesn't spawn any new processes, it keeps
them in ram if they are in use or on disk if not (in a file called
.ev-summary that should be in the mh folder I think).

killev shouldn't solve the problem... unless that file isn't getting
written to because of the killev. but afaik, the file gets synced to
disk when you switch out of that folder.

what probably needs to happen is that when you switch into the folder,
it needs to re-check the mtime of the directory (assuming it doesn't
already) and if it's changed (where changed == st.st_mtime !=
cached_mtime), re-index the folder.

Jeff

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