Re: [Evolution] Error Emptying Trash

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

one more thing you could try is to delete the mbox.ibex* files. might
work. *shrug*

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:20, Dave Coventry wrote:
> 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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