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[Bug 346352] Re: folders.db gets out of sync with mail server

 

I had the same issue with Evolution 3.2.1, and solved deleting the file
folders.db inside
~/.local/share/evolution/mail/1295611670.31535.6@cvs28.

So now the folders.db is no more in evolution/mail/imap, but in
evolution/mail/GUID.

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Title:
  folders.db gets out of sync with mail server

Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
  Confirmed
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evolution

  Evolution stores local information about IMAP server directories in
  ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<server name>/folders.db

  This file will frequently get corrupted and out of sync with the real
  number of messages in the folders on the server. Doing a
  "Send/Receive" does NOT correct the problem, nor does actually viewing
  the contents of the folder - e.g. the folder count will show 2 unread
  messages, when opening the folder shows no messages at all, and even
  after opening the folder the count will show 2 unread messages.

  Again: neither expunging the directory, closing and restarting
  Evolution, nor doing a send and receive will clear the erroneous
  counts.

  Shutting down Evolution, deleting the folders.db file, and restarting
  Evolution will clear the problem.

  NOTE: Unlike some of the other bug reports, no error messages are
  presented to the user in this case.

  Steps to reproduce:
  Given a working IMAP setup with Evolution, update all folders, then kill evolution (e.g. killall -KILL evolution).

  Expected results:
  Upon restart Evolution should rebuild the counts in all the folders.

  Actual results
  Evolution shows bogus counts on many (but not all) folders.

  Reproducibility: High, if not every time.

  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:	8.10

  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version        Description
  +++-==============-==============-============================================
  ii  evolution      2.24.3-0ubuntu groupware suite with mail client and organiz
  ii  evolution-comm 2.24.3-0ubuntu architecture independent files for Evolution
  ii  evolution-data 2.24.3-0ubuntu evolution database backend server
  ii  evolution-data 2.24.3-0ubuntu architecture independent files for Evolution
  un  evolution-data <none>         (no description available)
  un  evolution-data <none>         (no description available)
  ii  evolution-dbg  2.24.3-0ubuntu debugging symbols for Evolution
  pn  evolution-exch <none>         (no description available)
  un  evolution-exch <none>         (no description available)
  ii  evolution-plug 2.24.3-0ubuntu standard plugins for Evolution
  un  evolution-plug <none>         (no description available)
  ii  evolution-webc 2.24.0-0ubuntu webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution

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