Re: [Evolution] Investigating lost POP mails

[Viktor Horvath <ViktorHorvath gmx net>]

Hello Milan,

On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 10:17 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> What is the evolution-data-server version? I suppose it's 3.22.7
> ( https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution-data-server/3.22/ ).

yes, it is 3.22.7.

> Anyway, some messages can be stored in
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<pop-account-uid>/
> There's a file named 'uid-cache', where a list of known UIDs on the
> server is stored. When it's empty, the POP code will download all known
> from there. The 'cache' subfolder contains copies of the downloaded
> messages. There was a bug that it could grow ad infinity, thus, maybe,
> the messages are still there.

That's good to know, thank you!

> Also, I do not know for what you grepped in the folders, but you might
> pick something unique and plain ASCII, because non-ASCII letters can be
> encoded in the message headers, the same as the headers can be folded
> (wrapped), thus it can be tricky to search for the message using grep.

Yes, it was plain ASCII.

> By the way, you can enable POP debugging with:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging#POP3
>
> But do not file upstream bugs, your version in ancient. You should
> rather update to the latest stable, which is 3.32.2 at the moment.

As a software developer I understand your point, but as a user, I have
been running Evolution on Debian stable since about 2001 (at the time
happily syncing with a Palm Pilot), and have been generally quite
pleased with the quality of their packages. The next Debian stable will
be out soon ;-)

Best regards,
Viktor.