Re: [Evolution] (no subject)

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 09:45 -0400, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:57 -0400, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: 
> > > My mother has a boat load of emails that she is trying to delete. 
> > >  Evolution is having a problem doing that.  I have posted a bug but 
> > >  only a few people have had this problem and they have Ubuntu 9.10.  No 
> > > error messages pop up, the emails just sit in the trash folder and do 
> > >  nothing. 
> >
> > Does the user understand the Evo deletion model: mark the message 
> > Deleted, and later on Expunge the folder? 
> >
> > Is the account in question local (POP) or remote (IMAP, Exchange, etc.)? 
> >
> > If the account is local, check the size of the offending folder (not 
> > Trash but the the folder she's deleting from, probably Inbox). If it's 
> > close to 2GB, that may be the problem. ALso make sure there is at least 
> > 2GB free space on the filesystem that holds /tmp. 
> >
> > poc 
>
> Thanks for helping me with this problem. The error that I saw was
>  "Error while expunging folder".  It is a pop3 account and the emails
>  are just regular emails.  No attachments.  She deletes from IN box and
>  expunges from trash folder.  Lots of free space.  I deleted what was
>  in the /tmp folder and rebooted and I get the same error.  Please, any
>  other ideas? Jonathan

Once again, check the size of the Inbox file, e.g.:

ls -lh ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox

If it's close to 2GB, surgery will be required. This is because Evo
can't handle mbox-format files larger than this. Expunging trash from an
mbox file implies making a copy of the file, which is how this situation
can arise.

poc