expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 00:01:34 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:32 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> 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.
Not only have I never seen this, I don't recall even hearing about it,
at least in these terms, despite being on the Evo list for lo these many
years. IOW I doubt it's all that common.
Be that as it may, one thing to try is to completely quit Evo
("evolution --force-shutdown") and run the following script, which
cleans up Evo's SQL databases:
#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.evolution/mail/
for i in `find . -name folders.db`
do
echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
done
BTW the OP didn't say whether his mail is on an IMAP server or not. This
could possibly be relevant.
poc
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