Re: [Evolution] Evolution can't empty trash

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Sonntag, den 10.04.2011, 00:52 -0700 schrieb Richard E Hagelstein
Jr.:
> Vielen Dank,
>
> Entschuldigen Sie, bitte.  Ihr Englisch is viel beáer als mein Deutsch.
> Ich habe nie die Gelegenheit es zu benÃtzen. Es gibt vieleicht dreiáig
> Jahren.  So werde ich auf Englisch weiter gehen.
>
> I  know very little about compiling or building an app.  I'm a newbee to
> Linux.  I went to the links that you gave, but confess that it is over
> my head....I downloaded the patch, but don't even know how to do
> the .tar...
>
> Any help would be appreciated....
>
> Richard

Well, what system are you on? Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE or other? Which
version of that distribution? For now, I would suggest to you to
upgrade to the latest stable evolution version, that being 2.32.xx -
AFAIK. 

> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 22:48 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 08.04.2011, 11:05 -0700 schrieb Richard E Hagelstein
> > Jr.:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am getting 50 or so junk emails a day (don't know why).  My Evolution
> > > can't expunge the trash.  I get an error.  The error box says there's a
> > > mismatch somewhere.  So these junk emails are rapidly filling my hard
> > > drive, and I can't delete them. Any ideas??
> > > Richard
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > evolution-list mailing list
> > > evolution-list gnome org
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> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
> >
> > > From the mail header I conclude that you use version 2.28. I am also
> > still "hooked" to that "ancient" version. But I applied some patches
> > regarding that "can't empty trash"-problem and haven't seen it in a
> > long time.
> > You can get the patches from
> > http://www.t-mittelstaedt.de/evo-patches-2-28.tar.gz
> > and http://www.t-mittelstaedt.de/evo-eds-patches-2-28.tar.gz.
> >
> > But you need to know how to build evolution from source. See
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00004.html.
> > Just check out the gnome-2-28 branch instead of the gnome-2-32.
> > I would be willing to assist you in building the app.
> >
> > Hope that helps,


-- 
thomas