Re: [Evolution] A breakdown in my evolution under F17

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:48 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 10:39 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> > On one I use evolution regularly
> > on the other I use evolution hardly at all. But suddenly both evolution
> > programs broke down in the same way. On one machine when I did a send
> > and receive I was presented with the downloading of 255 messages.
> > Normally I have no more that 100 on that machine. After downloading i
> > had 206 messages in my Inbox. At the top were the real non-junk e-mails
> > followed by 100 or so junk e-mails which repeated themselves and
> > appeared in descending date order.
>
> If you download again to they repeat again?  If you look at the
> duplicates headers does the Message-ID actually repeat, or is it
> different?
The message ID is different.
> > So I went to the other machine with the evolution that I rarely use and
> > whose configuration I have not changed recently. Its behavior was the
> > same as on the first machine.
> > Both machine use evolution 3.4.5
> > Both machines use a POP server so I wondered if the POP server was
> > having problems. But went I went to my wife's machine using Outlook
> > there were no problems.
>
> But how long between looking at Evo(s) and trying Outlook? 

15 minutes I believe
> > Has any one have any idea what may be going on?
> > How could I re-install the evolution from scratch?.
>
> REINSTALLING WILL NOT HELP, DO NOT DO THAT.
>
> You can delete the messages, see that the mailbox is empty.  Delete the
> POP account.  And restart Evolution.   If it really is an Evolution
> problem that will be enough.  Then re-add the POP account.
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