I think the problem was that show was set to "unread messages" instead of "all messages". At any rate, I deleted the entire cache this time (the whole tree for this account) and re-downloaded again, and the problem persisted. Then I noticed that show was set to "unread messages", changed it, and everything was there.
Likely that was the problem all along. The only odd thing is that I never intentionally reset the display to unread messages, and I'm pretty sure the instant the problem occurred was when I clicked in the message display or message list. I'm sorry I didn't notice that sooner. I've never used that widget so was ignoring it. Out of curiosity, and for possible future trouble shooting, are ~/.gconf/evolution ~/.local/share/evolution ~/.cache/evolution the only 3 areas where info is stored? What's the breakdown between them, esp gconf vs local? Thanks Milan and Pete for your help. Ross On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 09:07 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > That produced a much more extensive download, but the result was still > > corrupt. > > > > The remote mailbox has about 19,000 messages. > > > As Milan said, deleting the files should re-download all the messages. > > Is it at all possible that the corruption is on the server side? Do you > have some other method of seeing the messages on the imap server? > > If all else fails, create yourself a whole new (temp) Linux account so > that everything is clean and configure Evolution on that clean account > to point at the imap server. That way you can make sure that something > works! > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
