Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.0.3 Sent Folder Issues

[Andy Michael <andy plumsound co uk>]

Andre Klapper <ak-47 <at> gmx.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:50 -0700, Patrick Topping wrote:
> > I recently upgraded from Evolution 2.x to 3.0.3 and ever since the
> > upgrade my Sent folder does not wok 99.99% of the time.  It shows
> > errors like the following for every message in the folder:
> >
> >         Unable to retrieve message
> >         Cannot get message 2 from
> >         folder /home/ptopping/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent:
> >         No such file or directory
> >
> > I have checked the directory that Evolution is complaining about and
> > the hidden directory is there and contains the following 3
> > directories:
> >
> >         ptopping <at> jackass
> >         [/home/ptopping]$ cd .local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent
> >         ptopping <at> jackass
> >         [/home/ptopping/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent]$ ls
> >         -l
> >         total 12
> >         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 12:08 cur
> >         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 11:54 new
> >         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 12:08 tmp
>
> Does .local/share/evolution/mail/local/Sent (without a dot in front of
> "Sent") also exist (ls -l)?
>
> Wild guess: .Sent is an empty leftover and you want to use Sent instead,
> and have to adjust your default folder settings under Edit â Preferences
> â Mail Accounts â Edit â Defaults â Folder.
>
> andre

I've got an identical problem.  In my case there is a *folder* called .Sent
which contains older messages and a *file* called Sent that contains newly sent
ones, probably the ones sent since I upgraded to 3.0.3.  I also have sets of
folders with earlier messages such as "Inbox 2009" that were created in earlier
versions of Evolution.

It appears that Evolution changed from folders to files in 3.0.3 but the upgrade
process was broken and Evolution is now confused as to which files or folders
it's supposed to be using. Any ideas?  I don't want to lose any emails!

Andy