On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 09:45 -0400, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:57 -0400, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > >> My mother has a boat load of emails that she is trying to delete. > >> Evolution is having a problem doing that. I have posted a bug but > >> only a few people have had this problem and they have Ubuntu 9.10. No > > > error messages pop up, the emails just sit in the trash folder and do > >> nothing. > > > >Does the user understand the Evo deletion model: mark the message > >Deleted, and later on Expunge the folder? > > > >Is the account in question local (POP) or remote (IMAP, Exchange, etc.)? > > > >If the account is local, check the size of the offending folder (not > >Trash but the the folder she's deleting from, probably Inbox). If it's > >close to 2GB, that may be the problem. ALso make sure there is at least > >2GB free space on the filesystem that holds /tmp. > > > >poc > > Thanks for helping me with this problem. The error that I saw was > "Error while expunging folder". It is a pop3 account and the emails > are just regular emails. No attachments. She deletes from IN box and > expunges from trash folder. Lots of free space. I deleted what was > in the /tmp folder and rebooted and I get the same error. Please, any > other ideas? Jonathan
Once again, check the size of the Inbox file, e.g.: ls -lh ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox If it's close to 2GB, surgery will be required. This is because Evo can't handle mbox-format files larger than this. Expunging trash from an mbox file implies making a copy of the file, which is how this situation can arise. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
