[Evolution] Evolution missing folders--subscribed only?

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan stanfordalumni org>]

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-gnome-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:
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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).