Paul, Thanks for the comments. I sell books worldwide and therefore have to deal with emails from any country. However, when this problem happened none of the mail appeared to be in anything other than English. The last message to download was a press release from a respectable German company (in English) which had about five attached files amounting to about 2MB total (I have seen the message on my old Windows PC).
I'm not familiar with pine, ucbmail, emacs (I'm new to Linux) - are you saying I could get rid of this last message with this software? Peter > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Leyland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution! > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:51:31 +0100 > > > We see this occasionally --- message-of-death we call it locally. > Almost always the m-o-d is spam in a Chinese character set. > > The easiest way to deal with a m-o-d is to delete it using some other > software. Some people prefer to fire up pine or ucbmail; I tend to use > Emacs myself. > > We generally advise that spam is delivered to a folder which has the > preview pane inactive. Very rarely is it necessary to see the contents > of a mail to determine its spamicity. In particular, if the subject > isn't in a Roman alphabet the message is flushed instantly. I > recognize that this heuristic isn't appropriate for everyone everywhere. > > > Paul > > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:22:08 +0100 > > From: "Peter Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution! > > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > > > I'm using Evolution 2.4.1 on Ubuntu 5.10 and Gnome 1.12.1. > > > > My problem began yesterday when I clicked on a new mail message just > > arrived in Evolution. What I got was a warning: "The application > > "Evolution" has quit unexpectedly" and the options of "Restart > > Application", "Close", or "Inform Developers". Restart simply closed > > Evolution. When I opened Evolution again I got the same warning - and > > the same result on clicking either Restart or Close. Restarting the PC > > makes no difference. If I click outside the warning box it freezes the > > PC. At present I have no access to my mail. > > > > If I start Evolution in the terminal I get the same result and in > > terminal it shows: > > > > adding hook target 'source' > > > > (evolution:7993): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion > > `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed > > > > (evolution:7993): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: > > gnome_canvas_request_redraw: assertion `GNOME_IS_CANVAS (canvas)' > > failed > > evolution: tif_jpeg.c:1505: JPEGCleanup: Assertion `sp != 0' failed. > > > > To make sure I kept my mail, I backed up .evolution > > and .gconf/apps/evolution. Then I did a reinstall of Evolution...but > > still had the problem. So then I did a complete removal followed by > > installation of Evolution...but still got the warning message. > > > > Next I deleted the .evolution and .gconf/apps/evolution folders. When > > I next opened Evolution there was no warning message and it would work > > but I had no mail and no custom folders. > > > > If I add back only the original .gconf/apps/evolution folder the > > result is the same - no warning message but no mail and no custom > > folders. > > > > If I add back only the original .evolution folder I get my mail and > > custom folders but also the warning message and the problem again. > > > > I don't understand enough about Linux to know what to do next - I'd be > > grateful if someone could please help me get my Evolution back in > > working order. > > > > Thanks! > > > -- > Paul Leyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Hanging on in quiet desperation is > Dept. of Genetics, Cambridge University | the English way. > Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK | The time is gone, the > song is over. > Tel: +44-1223-333963 Fax: +44-1223-333992 | Thought I'd something more to say. > << signature.asc >> > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
