Re: [Evolution] weird bug: mismatch between the message list and preview pane

[Anonymous Japhering <japhering gmail com>]

On 10/7/22 16:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 18:31 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > IIUC you are asking for an option to rebuild the folder tree, hence
> > > I
> > > suspect you are using IMAP accounts. It's one of the reasons for me
> > > to
> > > stay with POP accounts, since those are completely free from such
> > > maintenance work on almost all MUAs, while there isn't a day
> > > without
> > > similar IMAP account related questions on at least one MUA's
> > > mailing
> > > list.
> > I think that's tremendously unfair. I've used IMAP based accounts for
> > many, many years and never had any issues with them. They are
> > infinitely more workable when you use more than one client - I
> > currently have something like 10 clients on different OS's and lots
> > of
> > different MUAs and NEVER had any issues.
> Agreed. I too have a number of IMAP-based accounts and several clients
> for them on different devices and platforms, including Evolution. I
> have never seen an issue such as the OP describes. My guess would be
> that there is some sort of database corruption, but since I don't use
> the Flatpak version I can't really comment further.
The flatpak version ( 3.46.0 by Flathub.org ) is currently so unstable
on Linux Mint 20.3 Una - that it is basically unusable.  I'm blessed if
I get 5 minutes of work before it segfaults and shuts down.  So far, I've
logged 6 different operations that crash it.