expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION

Fri Feb 12 23:32:38 UTC 2010

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:08 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On my machine expunge in evolution-2.28.2-1.fc12.i686 is no longer
> working so the deleted messages are building up. What does one do in
> this case to fix this problem?
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Expunge works in all the folders except Inbox, Junk and Trash.
> Maybe it is not supposed to work in Trash.

Yeah, I have no idea why this is taking years (literally) to fix.  Its
like the Novell dev guys are purposely sabotaging Gnome users or
something.  The first reports that I sent in of this problem were on
Fedora 4, and its still there and still biting an awful lot of users
over and over again.

See response #131 for a workaround in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550414