On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:04 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 09:51 -0500, Rick Friedman wrote:
> > While trying to expunge my "Spam_Junk" folder, I get the following error
> > message:
> > 
> > Error while Expunging folder.
> > Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
> > 
> > While trying to empty my Trash folder, I get the following error
> > message:
> > 
> > Error while Expunging folder.
> > Error storing `~/.evolution/mail/local/Spam_Junk (mbox)':
> > Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this? Any help is greatly
> > appreciated.
> 
> Are you sure you're not running out of space? An mbox is a potentially
> huge file with an entire folder in it, and expunging in this case means
> selectively copying it to another file before removing it, i.e. the
> space overhead can greatly increase during the process.
> 
> Just a thought ...

Definitely not running out of space. I have over 30gb free on that
partition. Anyway, I solved the problem by deleting the
~/.evolution/mail/local/Spam_Junk.ev-summary file. Upon restarting
evolution, the file was created and the error was gone.

Rick
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