Re: [Evolution] Disappearing exchange mail

[Art Alexion <art rhd org>]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:57 -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> One of the work arounds is to move the mail out of the inbox and into
> a
> temporary folder. And then back again, and evolution will see it.
> While
> this works on single emails - I had 100s of mail lost - moving them
> all
> to a temporary folder didn't bring them all back to evolution. Only
> some.

I use this script to restore them.  It works consistently, but the bug
makes evo-exchange not suitable for deployment to non-technical users.


#!/bin/bash

echo "Completely shutting down Evolution..."
evolution --force-shutdown
echo "Deleting indexes..."
rm -rf ~/.evolution/exchange/
rm -rf ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/
echo "It is now safe to restart Evolution"
# evolution &


Uncomment the last line if you want debug feedback when evo restarts.
Leave it commented and run it from a menu/do/alt+f2 if you don't want
constant debug info in your terminal.

When evo restarts, it will rebuild the indexes which can take some time.

-- 
Art Alexion
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