Connecting via IMAP to our email server I'm finding that Evolution
cannot empty the 'Trash'. When I click the 'Empty Wastebasket'
option is thinks about it for a while and then nothing.

Also, it may be related, but it seems that all emails that /don't/
match to my filters are automatically deleted. They used to work
fine, but something's gone wrong somewhere,

Anyone have any ideas?

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Chris wrote:
> Connecting via IMAP to our email server I'm finding that Evolution
> cannot empty the 'Trash'. When I click the 'Empty Wastebasket'
> option is thinks about it for a while and then nothing.
> 
> Also, it may be related, but it seems that all emails that /don't/
> match to my filters are automatically deleted. They used to work
> fine, but something's gone wrong somewhere,
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
Same thing happening to me on Evolution.  Have it on a laptop and can't 
get the "Trash" to empty!  It already says that "203 emails deleted", 
but they are still there!  I am just going to uninstall Evolution and 
use TBird.

cf wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>> Connecting via IMAP to our email server I'm finding that Evolution
>> cannot empty the 'Trash'. When I click the 'Empty Wastebasket'
>> option is thinks about it for a while and then nothing.
>> 
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>> 
> Same thing happening to me on Evolution.  Have it on a laptop and
> can't
> get the "Trash" to empty!  It already says that "203 emails
> deleted",
> but they are still there!  I am just going to uninstall Evolution
> and use TBird.

It's not just me then, bugger. For reasons mentioned in another
thread, I've had to move *from* TBird. Enjoy, tbird is great (IMHO)!

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On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:43:58 +0000, Chris wrote:

> cf wrote:
> 
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Connecting via IMAP to our email server I'm finding that Evolution
>>> cannot empty the 'Trash'. When I click the 'Empty Wastebasket' option
>>> is thinks about it for a while and then nothing.
>>> 
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>> 
>> Same thing happening to me on Evolution.  Have it on a laptop and can't
>> get the "Trash" to empty!  It already says that "203 emails deleted",
>> but they are still there!  I am just going to uninstall Evolution and
>> use TBird.
> 
> It's not just me then, bugger. For reasons mentioned in another thread,
> I've had to move *from* TBird. Enjoy, tbird is great (IMHO)!

Its a known Evolution bug - 550414 "Corruption of mailbox and can't 
expunge trash".

Its quite an old bug (since at least 2008). Developers periodically 
fiddle with it but its still active. There is a work-round:
 
- stop Evolution

- delete .evolution/mail/local/folders.db
  (.evolution/mail/accounts/folders.db in some versions). 

- restart Evolution, which rebuilds folders.db.

The main drawback is that you'll loose your meta-data and message 
tagging. It worked OK for me without any side effects, but then I don't 
tag messages or knowingly use meta-data. The problem hasn't reappeared 
since I deleted it. There's some talk that file corruption generated by 
an earlier version than I'm running now triggered the problem.


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Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:43:58 +0000, Chris wrote:
> 
>> cf wrote:
>> 
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> Connecting via IMAP to our email server I'm finding that
>>>> Evolution cannot empty the 'Trash'. When I click the 'Empty
>>>> Wastebasket' option is thinks about it for a while and then
>>>> nothing.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>> 
>>> Same thing happening to me on Evolution.  Have it on a laptop and
>>> can't
>>> get the "Trash" to empty!  It already says that "203 emails
>>> deleted",
>>> but they are still there!  I am just going to uninstall Evolution
>>> and use TBird.
>> 
>> It's not just me then, bugger. For reasons mentioned in another
>> thread, I've had to move *from* TBird. Enjoy, tbird is great
>> (IMHO)!
> 
> Its a known Evolution bug - 550414 "Corruption of mailbox and can't
> expunge trash".
> 
> Its quite an old bug (since at least 2008). Developers periodically
> fiddle with it but its still active. There is a work-round:
>  
> - stop Evolution
> 
> - delete .evolution/mail/local/folders.db
>   (.evolution/mail/accounts/folders.db in some versions).
> 
> - restart Evolution, which rebuilds folders.db.
> 
> The main drawback is that you'll loose your meta-data and message
> tagging. It worked OK for me without any side effects, but then I
> don't tag messages or knowingly use meta-data. The problem hasn't
> reappeared since I deleted it. There's some talk that file
> corruption generated by an earlier version than I'm running now
> triggered the problem.

Sadly, I don't have a folders.db file anywhere under .evolution. Also
looking at the bug comments I can see it is for POP accounts. There
is a related bug 568409 for IMAP, which has been fixed in version
2.25.92.

However, I'm on CentOS 5.2 which has a very old version of Evolution
(2.12.3). I've tried compiling a newer version from source, but I've
got an unresolvable dependency in one of the libraries... :(

Looks like I'm going to have to try something else.
Thanks for your help.

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