[Evolution] Evolution missing folders--subscribed only?

[Ross Boylan <ross biostat ucsf edu>]

Evolution is only aware of some of the folders on my IMAP account.  My
 efforts to get it to start over haven't worked.  Can anyone advise me what I
 need to do to get the list of folders accurate?

The folders showing appear to be the ones I'm subscribed to; checking and
unchecking the "show only subscribed folders" option (which was originally
off anyway) doesn't change the display.

I have a weird, incomplete list of subscribed folders on the server because
(probably) of another email client (icedove aka thunderbird) that died while
working with the mailbox.  icedove shows the same list of folders as
evolution.

I want to see all folders, not the small subset that seems to have been
 marked subscribed.

I tried deleting (renaming, actually) .evolution, .gnome2_private/Evolutioin,
and .gconf/apps/evolution.  I tried evolution --force-shutdown.  I tried
asking it to send/receive mail, though I interrupted that because it was
taking forever.  I tried deleting and recreating the account (in evolution).

I have not done alll these things at once.  For example, when I renamed the
files I quit evo, but did not --force-shutdown or stop gconfd (which means, I
think, that it held onto some some old settings in memory.  However, it
doesn't appear to have any settings that list particular folders.)

I do not know what a good way to shutdown gconfd is, short of logging out. 
 My understanding was that it was supposed to shut down after a couple of
 minutes of inactivity, but it doesn't do so (could it be waiting for one of
 the evo sessions I killed to tell say it's done?).

I have over 100 folders, some nested within others.  The largest folder has
about 340,000 messages.  My server is running Cyrus 2.2 (locally).

When I first created the accounts my version (Debian 2.6.3-6) was suffering
from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324982 (though with different
symptoms: after I created the account the process of opening folders hung and
I got the error message shown in the bug in my .xsession-errors).  I rebuilt
with the fix
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/trunk/plugins/new-mail-notify/org-gnom
e-new-mail-notify.eplug.xml?r1=33354&r2=33530.

It is possible there were other problems as well, since I got other errors
(see at bottom of message and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423916).

Here's the .xsession-errors corresponding to my original account creation:
--------------------------------------------------------
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
  (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x3c07458

(evolution-2.6:6600): e-utils-WARNING **: Cannot resolve
symbol 'org_gnome_new_mail_config' in
plugin '/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/plugins/liborg-gnome-new-mail-notify.so' (not
exported?)
BBDB spinning up...

(evolution-2.6:6600): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Cannot activate
OAFIID:GNOME_Spell_Dictionary:0.3

(evolution-2.6:6600): e-utils-WARNING **: Cannot resolve
symbol 'org_gnome_new_mail_config' in
plugin '/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/plugins/liborg-gnome-new-mail-notify.so' (not
exported?)

(evolution-2.6:6600): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Cannot activate
OAFIID:GNOME_Spell_Dictionary:0.3

(evolution-2.6:6600): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_path: assertion
`iter->stamp == GTK_LIST_STORE (tree_model)->stamp' failed
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(the ones I fixed concerned org_gnome_new_mail_config. 
 Suspiciously, this seems to be triggered by the receipt of new mail, not the
 creation of an account).