Hi
On Nov 9, 2015 9:52 PM, "Fedora" <fedora rovoreed com> wrote:
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> I have a problem with Evolution Mail (version 3.16.5) that is steadily getting worse.
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> I get lots of (typically) ...
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> "Unable to retrieve message.
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> Cannot get message 1445510505.6156_169.ceri from folder /home/mike/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.House.BT Bills: No such file or directory"
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> If I click away to a different message in a different folder, then come back to the email giving this message, then the email appears OK. So now having read the message, if I shut down Evolution, and restart, then an email that was giving error, appears again as unread, with the "Unable to retrieve message". Also If I delete one of these messages, it simply reappears on the next start of Evolution.
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> I have tried a backup and restore. Makes no difference.
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> At this point I guess I should say I've got about 15 years worth of emails here - about 12Gb in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail
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> Has anyone got any hints or tips for sorting this out ?
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> Thanks
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You might want to clear the cache and check - https://wiki.debian.org/Evolution
Cheers
-ritz