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

[Alex Viskovatoff <viskov earthlink net>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 15:40, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:56, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:

> > 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.

I am operating in the dark here: I downloaded the source code for
Evolution to see if I could figure out where the names of files
containing nmh messages were cached, but quickly gave up, because
Evolution is evidently an extremely complex program. That is why I was
happy to hear of the reference to killev. All I know is that I tried
several times quiting evolution, deleting the appropriate .ev-summary
file, and restarting evolution, but that never got Evolution to update
its message listing to be current with the actual contents of the nmh
folder in question. When I ran killev a couple of times however, the
problem just went away. Perhaps it was a coincidence, as you imply, but
I am still at a loss as to why deleting the .ev-summary didn't fix the
problem immediately.

> 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.

I entirely agree. Or at least add a command "re-index folder", as exists
in exmh.

Overall, I am extremely happy with Evolution. I had been tired of not
having a "modern" email program, having used exmh since I switched to
Linux a few years ago. It is very nice to have a program that can handle
both nmh folders and imap.

Alex