> Summary--- > > 1- Is there a tool to detect and correct inconsistencies within the > Evolution mail folders internal structure? > > 2- How come Red Carpet updates for Evolution on Red Hat 9 seem to have > dried up since 2.0.2 back in October? > > The story--- > > Every once in a while, my notebook PC ends up getting shut down > uncleanly. I'll spare you the long sad story as to why, but it > sometimes does happen. > > Every now and then I've found instances of an Evolution mail folder > smelling funny. e.g. Evolution will say that I have an unread message > in the folder, but looking through the folder, I see none. Looking > closer, I've even seen that some recent messages are missing. > > My best guess is that this happens from the unclean shut downs. By > experimentation, I think I've figured out that if I open the mail file > for the folder in question and scan for the message(s) with > X-Evolution:.*-0000 in them, that I will find the unread messages. > > My sledge-hammer crude recovery procedure is: > > evolution --force-shutdown # Give it a chance to really be dead. > cd ~/.evolution/mail/local > a=folder-name > ls -l $a.* # Look before applying sledge hammer > rm $a.* # Remove all the indexing, etc. > #Start up Evolution again and give it time to re-build the folder. > #Now that I can see all the messages, mark off things as read that I've > #indeed read. > > Is there an evolution mailbox consistency checker that could do this > more gracefully? Is there an evolution document somewhere that I > should have read to have known this? (That is, I'll happily accept an > RTFM response, if you'll kindly point me to The Fancy Manual). > > I'm running Evolution 2.0.2 on Red Hat 9. Semi-often I run the Red > Carpet program in search of updates, but they seem to have dried up > since last October. (There was some discussion of this elsewhere on > the list, so I guess that is that unless I want to install from source. > Nature's way of telling me I need to invest more energy into getting to > a more contemporary distribution? I much prefer letting the utilities > figure out what I need and offer me the updates. Work enough for my > neuron to decide when the time is ripe to accept the risk of doing an > update. Has there been a formal declaration that Evolution no longer > supports Red Hat 9 with its ongoing development? That is, how come so > long since fresh updates were offered to me through the usual > channels?). > > My mail is retrieved via POP and the folders are stored as local files > on the PC's local disk. Only other potentially relevant configuration > factoid I can think of is that the file system is ReiserFS (Reiser 3.6). > If you want to know more, tell me what you want to know and I'll dig it > up. > > Any pointers, suggestions or help you can offer will be appreciated. > > Drew
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