Re: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is designed to go?

[Luigi Cantoni <luigic fgcint com>]

Hi Mike,
I have no direct idea about your problem other then a suggestion.
Make sure your VM is OFF. Otherwise it might be that the VM is grabbing
the mail before your "live" one and then its not available to the live
one to down load.
I might be 100% off track but its just a simple idea, easy to test and
if I am correct very easy for you to solve (no reinstall etc).

-- 
Thanks Luigi Cantoni

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike <mike netwright net>
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is
designed to go?
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:23:37 +0000
Mailer: Desktop

This is my first post here and it is a long one.

I did look at the index of previous posts but there is no way to search
through all of them, so I truly do apologize in advance... but maybe,
just maybe what I did has pushed out a bug you didn't know about
before. This is complicated. I am sorry, but if you don't have all of
the info, you will accuse me, potentially of hiding the relevant facts:

Until seven days ago, and for thirty years prior to that, I was a user
of Microsoft Office Outlook. (That's the client on the desktop, not the
online service.) I had thirty years of business and personal
correspondence in it. A lot of it in many, many folders and nested
folders.) It is what kept me on Windows on this last PC when everything
else I had was running Debian Linux. 

But then I saw that, maybe, I could actually import the PSTs into this
release of Evolution.  I had tried in the past and it had failed
miserably. I tried anew and it worked on a test VM machine. It was all
good and so I made the leap, reformatting the Windows 10 computer and
put Debian 11.5 on it. 

I exported the data set from the VM and imported it into the physical
Debian platform the VM was now running on. The gz package was 3.2GiB. 

I still have the VM and can run it, though I don't want to use it as a
work platform. 

On the new platform, with the data imported (and all the data is there)
only a day after I imported it, it no longer displayed any new mail.

It says there is new mail via a notification popup, but there is
nothing in the inbox or anywhere else.

-- The versions of Evolution on the VM and the new install are the
same. 
-- Both are running on Debian 11.5. 
-- On the VM Evolution still works. 
If I sent mail, it did get sent, but it also didn't appear in the sent
folder or anywhere else. 

Every once and a while I got a UID error message about a problem, but
it wasn't all the time. 

I used apt to remove the package. I deleted the folders, and then
deleted the trash, rebooting the PC immediately after that. 

I ran the VM version for another day, (and it works to this moment, if
I want to use the VM) and then made a fresh export from the VM version,
sFTPing it to the physical machine. But the same problem existed on the
re-installed version. 

I was on KDE Plasma, so I tried the same procedure all over again
installing it under Gnome-X. No difference. 

The only difference between the VM and this platform is that one has a
cinnamon desktop. 

I really wanted Evolution to work. It is now the repository for all I
have done in these last thirty years, but unless there is a way to fix
what ails this program, while it allowed me to make the move off
Windows, it is now only a vault for old emails and that is not good.

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