> Lots of information is missing from your report, that will be needed to fix > the problem. (I use evolution and delete mail everyday, so clearly there's > a problem related to your specific configuration).
I may have guessed the problem. I had less free disk space than the size of the Inbox file, but not zero disk space either. I suspect that evolution corrupts the mail files when this happens. Of course, this should not happen. Additionally, it ought to recover by regenerating the summary data and index. I got it to recover by manually deleting several files; these were then rebuilt. Not that I believe this is relevant, but to cover everything: the system is a 32-bit ppc box; it is thus big-endian with char being unsigned by default. > Are you using sarge or sid? set to unstable, whatever that is, and somewhat recently updated > Do you have any "experimental" packages? > Do you have any ubuntu, or other non-Debian packages? Nope. > What filesystem type is your /home ? > Is it local or is it shared through NFS ? Plain ext2. > Does this problem happen with all the folders or just with the Inbox? I think only the one was corrupted. > What happens if you delete & expunge just one message instead of 500 ? At this point, I can not tell. Sorry. (while I know this would help for debugging, please do not imagine this to be a reasonable work-around if it would have worked) > What happens if you delete messages from inside the Inbox folder instead > than from the vFolder ? I tried expunging with the Inbox selected, though the selection of stuff to delete had been made via the vFolder. I got the same error. > What's the output of "ls -l /.evolution/mail/local/" ? Running the command I think you intended: $ ls -l ~/.evolution/mail/local/ total 42124 -rw------- 1 albert albert 34855 Jan 23 17:03 Drafts -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 13 Feb 14 22:16 Drafts.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 1242 Jan 23 17:03 Drafts.ev-summary -rw------- 1 albert albert 25600 Jan 23 17:03 Drafts.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 10896 Jan 23 17:03 Drafts.ibex.index.data -rw------- 1 albert albert 27506931 Feb 15 09:18 Inbox -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 197 Feb 15 09:24 Inbox.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 1138033 Feb 15 09:18 Inbox.ev-summary -rw------- 1 albert albert 1030144 Feb 15 09:18 Inbox.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 3139660 Feb 15 09:18 Inbox.ibex.index.data drwxr-xr-x 2 albert albert 4096 Feb 14 22:16 Inbox.sbd -rw------- 1 albert albert 0 Feb 14 22:35 Outbox -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 13 Feb 14 22:35 Outbox.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 44 Feb 14 22:35 Outbox.ev-summary -rw------- 1 albert albert 7168 Feb 14 22:35 Outbox.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 0 Feb 14 22:35 Outbox.ibex.index.data -rw------- 1 albert albert 7805151 Feb 14 22:35 Sent -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 196 Feb 14 22:35 Sent.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 401613 Feb 14 22:35 Sent.ev-summary -rw------- 1 albert albert 546816 Feb 14 22:35 Sent.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 1332944 Feb 14 22:35 Sent.ibex.index.data -rw------- 1 albert albert 0 May 18 2003 personal -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 13 Feb 14 22:16 personal.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 7168 May 18 2003 personal.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 8 May 18 2003 personal.ibex.index.data -rw------- 1 albert albert 0 May 18 2003 procps -rw-r--r-- 1 albert albert 13 Feb 14 22:16 procps.cmeta -rw------- 1 albert albert 7168 May 18 2003 procps.ibex.index -rw------- 1 albert albert 8 May 18 2003 procps.ibex.index.data -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
