Re: [Evolution] Increasing number of maildir bugs in Evolution

[Patrick Ohly <patrick ohly gmx de>]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:46 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> There has been an increasing number of problems with the Maildir support
> in Evolution during late 2008 and early 2009. With the latest release in
> Fedora 10, it's almost unusable.
>
> To summarize the three most annoying bugs with maildir (yes, these and
> others have been filed in bugzilla):

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571206
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573177

> When you move mail into a maildir folder from an mbox folder, it
> frequently vanishes because the maildir index isn't updated. 
>
> If you receive new mail in a maildir folder while Evolution is running,
> you can't see it even though the folder shows the right count of new
> emails for the folder. The mail files are actually present in the
> physical maildir directory, so presumably this is another problem with
> the maildir index becoming corrupt.

I had seen this problem before, too. I then updated to 2.24.5 and it
seemed to be gone, but just now it happened again. I had to quit
Evolution, remove folders.db and restart to see the new emails.

> Assuming you manage to get some mail into a maildir folder and actually
> see it, if you decided to delete it, it is only hidden from view.
> File->empty trash doesn't expunge the file from the disk. This leads to
> wasted disk space over time. The only way actually delete deleted email
> that I've found is to go through the maildir folders one at a time and
> select folder->expunge on each one. But with hundreds of folders, this
> takes a lot of time.

I usually expunge individual folders, so this doesn't affect me.

> It seems like no one is maintaining maildir support any more. Should
> maildir users be looking for alternate email program?

I hope not. offlineimap + Evolution is a very useful combination that I
depend on nowadays.

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