Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Darren Govoni <darren ontrenet com>]

Trying to expunge, I get this error.

Error while Expunging folder 'Inbox'.

Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync


On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 15:19 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 21:04 +0100, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> > Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 à 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni a écrit :
> > > 1) I now get frequent "error storing folders", "error generating
> > > message list"
> > > 2) It's so slow. It is always "Storing folder", taking almost minutes
> > > to complete. Its on average 5-8x slower
> > > downloading, storing and viewing messages.
> > > 3) Its very buggy. When new messages arrive, they no longer show up in
> > > the folder I'm viewing.
> > > I have to click another folder and click back to see them.
> > > 4) For the first time ever, it corrupted my email files and I had to
> > > recover from backup. 
> > I had these issues until I understood that the deleted messages are not
> > deleted. They are simply hidden. Thus the mailboxes become huge and
> > unusable. There is no automatic purge of deleted messages. This is a
> > flaw in the design of Evolution.
>
> Automatically purging messages would be an error. [IMHO the correct
> solution is to *remove* the Hide-Deleted-Messages option].  You can't
> make everyone happy.
>
> > Use the purge feature. I don't remember exactly where it is hidden. I
> > think it is in Folder=>Clean (or something like that).
>
> Folder / Expunge - or - Ctrl-E
>
> > Yes you are right. Using PostgreSQL to store the messages would make
> > more sense.
>
> That would make no sense for a local desktop application - to have to
> have a database instance to store [cache] mail?
>
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