expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> 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
> 

The above solution did not work in that expunge does not remove deleted
files.
I am not using IMAP.
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