[Evolution] Evolution ate my Inbox

["Chris Worley" <worleys gmail com>]

Evolution 2.8.2 on OpenSuSE 10.2.

In the year I've been running OpenSuSE, Evolution has never shut down
properly.  Either it crashes or hangs or the system crashes.  Even
when I've tried to exit Evolution gracefully, it just hangs... and I
eventually kill it.  No problem... when it starts back up, everything
is fine... until yesterday.

Yesterday, for the first time, it exited when I asked.  This was
followed by a reboot.  Upon restarting Evolution, it showed ~100
emails in my Inbox (rather than ~30k).  Every time I restart it, it
shows a different message count... but still <2k.

My ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox file is ~1GB.  Manual inspection
shows everything there (I see the recent messages that Evolution is no
longer showing in my Inbox).

There must be some sort of tag in the file that's lumped most of the
email into one message.

What should I look for and how to repair?

Thanks,

Chris