Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available!

["Grant Rutherford" <grantrutherford hotmail com>]

> From: Not Zed <notzed ximian com>
> To: Grant Rutherford <grantrutherford hotmail com>
> CC: evolution ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available!
> Date: 22 Jul 2003 12:09:01 +0930
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:39, Grant Rutherford wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I had a problem with evolution following a power outage last week.  
> Thanks
> > to everyone for their help so far.  I have a little more information 
> about
> > the problem now.
> >
> > I can send/receive messages, but only in the time between starting 
> evolution
> > and the first time I attempt to open a folder.  When I open evolution 
> and
> > click send/receive right away, it displays the messages downloading, and
> > updates the number of messages in each folder.  However, once I click on 
> a
> > folder in an attempt to open it, the send/receive doesn't work anymore.
>
> This sounds like the mailer is crashing.
>
> > Just in case anyone missed my email last week, following a power outage
> > (which rebooted my computer and the local server) I have been unable to
> > access my mail folders in evolution.  When opened in a new window they 
> only
> > write (No Folder Displayed) on a gray background.  The non-mail folders
> > (contacts, calendar, tasks) work fine.
> >
> > Does this information help anyone?
>
> Not a lot :-/
>
> I have a suggestion though ...
>
> try the following commands in a terminal, after quitting evolution:
>
> cd
> evolution --force-shutdown

There was an error with this command:

Error on option --force-shutdown: unknown option.
Run 'evolution --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> mv .gconf/apps/evolution/mail .gconf/apps/evolution/mail.save

This folder doesn't exist on my apps directory (/evolution).  Will I have to 
get root access to do this?

> gconftool-2 --spawn
> evolution
>
> It will ask you to setup an account from scratch again, which you will
> have to re-enter.
>
> If things still don't work right, and you had any errors from the above
> commands other than the shutdown ones, paste them here.
>
> NOTE!  This will effectively 'remove' or 'reset' all of your accounts,
> so you will be reprompted to set up a new one.  They are backed up in
> mail.save if you need to return to them, basically repeat the above
> commands but reverse the mv command after removing the existing mail
> directory first.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Grant
> >
> >
> > >From: Not Zed <notzed ximian com>
> > >To: Grant Rutherford <grantrutherford hotmail com>
> > >CC: evolution lists ximian com
> > >Subject: Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available!
> > >Date: 17 Jul 2003 10:39:55 +0930
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 02:15, Grant Rutherford wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the ideas...  I just tried quitting evolution and KDE and
> > > > removing all files from the /tmp/orbit-grant directory.  I then 
> started
> > >KDE
> > > > and evolution again, and have noticed no change.  (Although some new
> > >files
> > > > have been created in that directory)
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible that the server still thinks that I am logged on to
> > > > evolution, so it won't allow a 'second' login?
> > >
> > >No probably not, you'd get different errors I think.
> > >
> > >Does running this (in a terminal) produce any output?
> > >
> > >gconftool-2 -R /apps/evolution/mail
> > >
> > >Could you attach it to a private email to me if it does.
> > >
> > >If it doesn't then gconf is really unhappy about something, and i'm not
> > >sure where you'd go from here.
> > >
> > >  Michael
> > >
> > >
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