Re: [Evolution] Conversion failure, Datastructure mess, Crashes

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

Thanks very much for your quick reply.

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 11:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:58 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > I have just upgraded from Fedora-13 to Fedora-15, which uses a maildir
> > format rather than the mbox format previously used.
>
> Yet again: telling people the version of the OS is not helpful. You need
> to mention the version of Evolution. Since I also use Fedora, I happen
> to know that it's 3.0.x, but not everyone on the list will know that.

Of course, foolish of me.  The version is 3.0.2

> > Evolution crashed
> > in the conversion process, leaving me in a mixed state with a few of the
> > maildir folders, which are (I think) in 
> >     ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur
> > and most of the remaining data structure in mbox form in various files in
> >     ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local_mbox
>
> Did it say anything when it crashed? Is there anything
> in /var/log/messages? Did abrt intervene (since this is Fedora)?

I don't remember it saying anything.  The crash was on July 2d.
Unfortunately all the records have been lost in a subsequent reinstall.
I performed an upgrade, which seemed to work, but left the yum database
and the programs actually installed in an inconsistent state, which made
it impossible to install updates in the usual way.  This forced me to
perform a complete reinstall (except for /home, of course.)  Abrt,
messages, whatever earlier than July 3d are no longer on the system.  

> > Since I've been using evolution about 4 days since the upgrade, some of
> > my messages are in one format, and some in the other, and some in both. 
> >
> > Also, Evolution now crashes whenever it has to file a message I have
> > sent in a folder other than "Sent", probably because there is no folder
> > available of the right kind.
>
> A bug in the version of Evo 3 distributed with Fedora 15 (now corrected
> in updates) means you have to explicitly select your Sent, Drafts etc.
> folders the first time. However the symptom is not a crash but an error
> message. Which is it?

Do you know the version of the buggy system, the version of the
corrected one? (8-).

> You can import mbox files into Evo, so that might be a way of unifying
> your mailboxes.

How can I avoid duplicate instances of the same message?

Thanks again - jon