I can confirm that the same happens when evolution core dumps, too. The symptoms are as follows:
After restarting Evolution when it had just crashed, the Outbox started up empty. When you press Send on a newly written message, Outbox message counter jumps past one (which would be the expected number): in my case it showed number six, and by evaluating the contents of Outbox, I saw that it contained ALL messages I had sent since last time restarting Evolution, plus the newly written one. So it seems that when Evolution is finishes its Send/Receive cycle, somehow it does not flush the true folder state all the way to the file system. If it then gets closed incorrectly, the new invocation gets the old state back when Outbox is touched for the first time. -- Evolution resends old mail after power failure https://launchpad.net/bugs/64953 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
