On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 16:27 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
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>/
I'm thinking the refetch when moving sent items to another folder did the trick. I moved back the sent mails to its original folder and the mails are now searchable again. If this happens again, is there a way force refresh the local cache?
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.
Ah, got it. Thanks! It did take a long time, although there were only about 4500 mails. The sent mail folder is probably the single biggest one I have.
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
This will be Plan B if the folder-routine doesn't help. For now it seems the folder move fixed stuff - probably a cache problem. Thanks for the assistance, I appreciate it! -- Sorin Srbu, Serverdrift Tele: 08-524 84166 Karolinska Institutet Universitetsbibliotek Avdelningen för Verksamhetsstöd Enheten för Teknikstöd och Bildproduktion
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