Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Robert Seward <rseward bluestone-consulting com>]

Hello Darren,

I have had problems with my large Evolution Inbox and Sent mail boxes. I took the steps described below to improve the performance of Evolution. I too noticed Evolution getting slow and performing like a dog. Also Expunges were not completing for me. I moved my clutter from Inbox and Sent mail boxes to archive mail files. Since I have done this Evolution has performed much better but I do suffer the annoyance of daily crashes from which I can recover from quickly. 

Recipe for archiving mail boxes.
  1) I moved old e-mails up to 01/01/2009 into an archive mail box.
  2) I attempted to deleted the old e-mails in the active inbox.
  3) Evolution continued to fail to expunge the deleted mail messages..
  4) So.. I closed evolution. I used mutt to open the Inbox
     {{{
        mutt -f Inbox
     }}}
  5) I used mutt to delete the e-mail up 01/01/2009 from the active mail box. 
     Mutt did the deed and saved the Inbox without the deleted messages.
  6) Evolution is now able to expunge the active Inbox as it should.

Thank you,
Rob


On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 17:31 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:29 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
> > Well, I think it happened when it was hung on 'Storing folder' when
> > downloading messages for a very long time and I canceled it. The
> > dialog hung and I brought the app down hard. Ok, generally not a good
> > thing, but it was hung.
>
> 	Hi,
> hmm, that might broke your folders.db file(s) and explain all the issues
> you are experiencing.
>
> > After that I couldn't open my Inbox folder. I could open others
> > though. After almost every receive mail action, I get errors storing
> > folder. And the folder rotates around. Not always the same. The error
> > dialog for that claims something about a 'column name'.
>
> Heh, exact message would be good too, but as long as it sounds like the
> DB corruption...
>
> > When downloading messages from a single POP endpoint, it goes into
> > 'Storing folder (0%-100%)' over and over. Not sure what that is and
> > why it does it every time.
>
> Please go to
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail
> where are 'pop' and 'local' folders, where each contains a folders.db
> file. Could you try to stop evolution and then move away (not delete,
> just in case something will be worse) those two folders.db files away,
> and then run evolution again, to see whether it'll be better, when the
> files will be regenerated from scratch, please?
>
> Also, I believe no ACID may help you when you are killing hung
> application "in the middle of its operation". :)
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
>
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