Re: [Evolution] Error Emptying Trash

[Dave Coventry <dcoventry e-zim com>]

Jeff,

Did a 'df', I have 4.5 Gig free, should be enough.

As I said, although I have Mutt on my box, I don't have Pine and have never knowingly used either of them.

I rather suspect that rieserfs journalling is to blame through a power loss. (although the box is a laptop, 
the battery is goosed so it must stay premenantly tethered to the power supply). So it would be difficult to 
reproduce.

If the mbox were corrupted, I would expect there to be some evidence of this in the Inbox, which appears to 
be perfectly sound.

Is there any way of extracting the info (including attachements) out of the mbox? Then I could discard it and 
start again.

Many thanks,

Dave




--- Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com> wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 00:53, Des Dougan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:59, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > uh, I hope not. camel is pretty careful about error checking, 
>
> Sorry to butt in with a couple of newbie questions, but what is camel?
> Is it the back-end processing engine that Evo uses?

camel is the mail access/parsing library used by evolution.

> > if you can find a way to reproduce corruption of the mbox file and/or
> > the summary 
>
> And what are summary files, and what are they used for?

summary files contain a summary of what messages are in the folder. they
are used for generating the message-list so that we don't have to parse
the mbox file every time. this is why evolution is so much faster than
mutt and pine and many other mailers.

Jeff

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