Rob,
Thank you so much for these tips. Greatly appreciated and I will try
them out.
Best,
Darren
> Hello Darren,
>
> I have had problems with my large Evolution Inbox and Sent mail boxes. I
> took the steps described below to improve the performance of Evolution.
> I too noticed Evolution getting slow and performing like a dog. Also
> Expunges were not completing for me. I moved my clutter from Inbox and
> Sent mail boxes to archive mail files. Since I have done this Evolution
> has performed much better but I do suffer the annoyance of daily crashes
> from which I can recover from quickly.
>
> Recipe for archiving mail boxes.
> 1) I moved old e-mails up to 01/01/2009 into an archive mail box.
> 2) I attempted to deleted the old e-mails in the active inbox.
> 3) Evolution continued to fail to expunge the deleted mail messages..
> 4) So.. I closed evolution. I used mutt to open the Inbox
> {{{
> mutt -f Inbox
> }}}
> 5) I used mutt to delete the e-mail up 01/01/2009 from the active mail
> box.
> Mutt did the deed and saved the Inbox without the deleted messages.
> 6) Evolution is now able to expunge the active Inbox as it should.
>
> Thank you,
> Rob
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 17:31 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:29 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
>> > Well, I think it happened when it was hung on 'Storing folder' when
>> > downloading messages for a very long time and I canceled it. The
>> > dialog hung and I brought the app down hard. Ok, generally not a good
>> > thing, but it was hung.
>>
>> Hi,
>> hmm, that might broke your folders.db file(s) and explain all the issues
>> you are experiencing.
>>
>> > After that I couldn't open my Inbox folder. I could open others
>> > though. After almost every receive mail action, I get errors storing
>> > folder. And the folder rotates around. Not always the same. The error
>> > dialog for that claims something about a 'column name'.
>>
>> Heh, exact message would be good too, but as long as it sounds like the
>> DB corruption...
>>
>> > When downloading messages from a single POP endpoint, it goes into
>> > 'Storing folder (0%-100%)' over and over. Not sure what that is and
>> > why it does it every time.
>>
>> Please go to
>> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail
>> where are 'pop' and 'local' folders, where each contains a folders.db
>> file. Could you try to stop evolution and then move away (not delete,
>> just in case something will be worse) those two folders.db files away,
>> and then run evolution again, to see whether it'll be better, when the
>> files will be regenerated from scratch, please?
>>
>> Also, I believe no ACID may help you when you are killing hung
>> application "in the middle of its operation". :)
>> Bye,
>> Milan
>>
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