On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 14:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 11:40 -0700, fmouse wrote: > > > > I'm having the same problem with evolution 3.18.5.2. It happens when > > new mail comes in while evolution is open and running, and the new > > mail is inaccessible and trying to open it gives "Unable to retrieve > > message. Empty cache file: /home/.... etc." I researched the problem > > and a few days ago read that this is a known problem and to date > > there's no know fix, > I've never seen such a message [speaking as a 24/7 Evolution user for > more than a decade].
If you've never seen this message, and can't contribute anything useful, please refrain from posting to this thread. > What type of account is this? Any change "/home" is full? Or > "/home" > is an NFS mount? I think it's been stated already that it's an IMAPx account, as is mine. I'll see if I can find the reference to the problem that I found earlier. > > > > Evolution is very old software and the code is a tangled mess. > This statement is ludicrous. No it's not. Look at the source code. Look up the history of the software, if you're not already familiar with it. > > It's great when it works, > It is great when it works, which is pretty much always. I've had evolution lose mail, get mailboxes totally confused, hang, crash and refuse to run altogether. See <http://www.fmp.com/living_with _evolution.html> which I wrote some years ago. It's still the mail client which treats me most like a technically educated mail admin. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | -- Hiram W Johnson _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
