2 GB is a pretty small size nowadays, & that bug is pretty lame. I never liked Evolution much, so this is icing on the cake. Of course, I don't like ANY email app 100%, including web apps. They all are flawed. But that bug in Evolution is awful!
Scott Sent from my iPhone -- Scott Granneman sc...@granneman.com On Nov 25, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Theresa Kehoe <t...@cablemo.net> wrote: > The problem with Evolution is the same, nearly-undocumented, issue he > ran into once before. In Evolution, when *ANY* mailbox folder (it > creates a new directory for each mailbox folder you create) gets to be > 2GB in size, it breaks the application. > > He has been deleting things ... but in Evolution, "Delete" really > means > "just hide it". User has to "expunge" to truly purge deleted items. > > Thus, even though he only has 100 or so emails in his inbox (that he > knows of, anyway), his Inbox mailbox grew to 2GB (obviously, at about > 9:30am this morning). > > So that sucks, but it's a problem I found a workaround for once > before. > > Still don't know what's up with his Firefox. I created a new user, > imported his existing bookmarks, and new user's Firefox shows history. > So, halfway through the puzzle -- but now finally have him convinced > it's time to: > > 1) back up!! > 2) update > 3) schedule regular backups in the future > > YAY! > > Happy Thanksgiving Day, all. > > Theresa > > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:33 -0600, Mike Bigalke wrote: >> Try creating a new user and log in and set up evolution to pop his >> mail again. In the past I have managed to mess up my main account so >> much that it made sense to create another for user for Ubuntu and use >> that one instead of my original account. >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Theresa Kehoe <t...@cablemo.net> >> wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:37 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Theresa Kehoe >> <t...@cablemo.net> wrote: >>>> But, does anyone have any good suggestions for how to >> troubleshoot this? >>>> I did try "mark for reinstallation" of everything >> Evolution-related in >>>> Synaptec, but that didn't appear to change anything. >>> >>> Since we don't know exactly where the issue is, it could be >> anything >>> from something relatively benign to just shy of >> catastrophic. So to >>> start: >>> >>> 1) backup his data (image the whole disk if you can) >> >> >> Working on it. To start with, completely backed up >> the .evolution >> folder. >> >>> 2) boot a livecd and check the filesystem(s) >> >> >> See #1 >> >>> 3) check filesystems for inode usage, df -i >> >> >> See #1 >> >>> 4) for Firefox, check the user settings (Edit > Preferences >>> Privacy) >> >> >> Checked all those when he told me about the problem. Created >> a new >> profile. None of those things worked. >> >>> 5) for Evolution, not sure as I don't use it. My >> inclination would be >>> to switch to IMAP over POP as POP has all some unresolved >> issues[1]. >> >> >> Why would POP work with Evolution just fine up through >> November 24, but >> break on November 25? >> >> Point is, when you click "Send/Receive", Evolution will send, >> but will >> not even *attempt* to receive (according to Wireshark logs). >> Created >> new account in Evolution, no diff. in behavior. >> >>> There's a bunch of other things to try, but we gotta start >> somewhere. >> >> >> Also, a year or two back, he ran into a glitch with Evolution >> whereby, >> when you had something like 2GB in your inbox, it broke. I >> remember >> stumbling through that one, and managed to find a workaround >> (although >> he lost some of his accumulated junk) ... so I can't help >> wondering if >> he hasn't hit some other undocumented limitation? >> >> Again, point is, worked just fine at 2200 on 24 Nov 2009 ... >> broken at >> 0830 on 25 Nov 2009. >> >> For another fun experiment, I just now logged on to his >> machine, then >> set up Evolution with his username and password ... and it >> works just >> fine. That points to it NOT being a physical hard drive >> issue, but >> instead being some weird tipping point like the one I ran into >> in the >> past. >> >> Evidently, Evolution has some limitations as to how much you >> can keep in >> which directories, and he max'ed that out. At least that's my >> best >> guess. No clue on Firefox (but didn't have time to test that >> out yet). >> >>> Good luck and let us know how things go. >> >> >> Always fun for the holidays! >> >> My notion for a fix is to go shopping online for a new >> computer and >> surprise him with an early Xmas gift! >> >> :-) >> >> (although unless I can do better teaching him to a) back up >> his data and >> b) not keep 2GB of *crap* in his inbox, not sure if it will >> help all >> that much) >> >> Theresa >> >> >> -- >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org >> To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com >> To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug >> >> >> >> -- >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org >> To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com >> To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com > To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
