Re: [Evolution] Searching emails with ews-accounts

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 12:26 +0200, Steve via evolution-list wrote:
> Shot in the dark but also check in your account settings that you
> have chosen to display unsubscribed folders to make sure all folders
> are returned before the search. This one always catches me out when
> setting up exchange accounts.

        Hi,
that setting is available only for IMAP accounts (here is used EWS) and
it ("Show only subscribed folders) is off by default, thus newly
created accounts do show subscribed and unsubscribed folders.

A related thing, Sorin searches in a single folder, thus the folder is
already shown in the GUI.

Sorin, I tried it here, with an Office 365 account, and I can search
"Subject or Addresses contain" with "Show All Messages" and "in Current
Folder" options, with no problem. I write part of one of the recipients
and only messages to that person are shown in the Sent Items folder.
This search should be done locally. Could you try to do the search when
you've run evolution from a terminal, please? There's a very little
chance, but maybe it'll print something there.

An alternative would be to refetch everything from the server from
scratch. I do not know how the local cache could get confused, but in
case it is, it'll help. The files are stored in

   ~/.cache/evolution/mail/<ews-account-UID>/

It's the directory containing folder-tree file. By moving the directory
away, when Evolution is closed, Evolution will re-download the
information about the folders and their content. It can take a long
time and use a lot of bandwidth, depending on the amount of the folders
and the mails you've stored on the server. There's also no assurance
it'll help for the search. The only thing I know is that it works for
me.

Oh, and another thing is to move away:

   ~/.config/evolution/mail/state.ini

file, which contains information about the settings you've done for
each folder, including the search settings. Only move it away, do not
delete it, thus you can return it back if needed.
        Bye,
        Milan