Re: [Evolution] Summary and folder mismatch after trying the usual fixes

[Zak <zak wilson gmail com>]

>If Milan's suggestion (see separate answer) doesn't work out, you can
>  use formail (part of the procmail package) to rewrite the entire mbox

>  file in canonical form.

This had interesting results: the resulting mbox is still 2.4gb, but
has, according to both Evolution and mutt only 48 messages in it
instead of 35,000. I haven't tried playing with all the options
formail offers yet.