Inbox and messages disappear, downloading via pop fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
Evolution 2.22.3.1, current ubuntu hardy (Ubuntu 8.04.1, linux 2.6.24-21-generic)
I am rarely using evolution, and merely to backup my gmail emails to the hard drive, in case something happens at google.
When I started gmail today, the Inbox was gone. (see first screen shot)
There were no other mails (Sent, etc.) either, but I doubt there were any, ever, since I only download mails from there, not send any.
My mail folder:
~/Mail/evolution$ du -h mail/local/*
0 mail/local/Drafts
4,0K mail/local/
4,0K mail/local/
0 mail/local/
2,1G mail/local/Inbox
4,0K mail/local/
2,3M mail/local/
400K mail/local/
3,7M mail/local/
9,5M mail/local/
0 mail/local/Outbox
4,0K mail/local/
4,0K mail/local/
0 mail/local/
0 mail/local/Sent
4,0K mail/local/
4,0K mail/local/
0 mail/local/
2,1 Gigabytes Inbox. So the data is there. I have no idea where those ibex folders come from. Is 2.22.3.1 a backport from intrepid?
Hitting the "send/receive" button results in the send/receive-window flashing up shortly and disappearing again, right away. The status bar gets divided into several "tabs" all telling me, downloading emails failed.
The account is visible in the evolution account settings. (see screen shot 2)
renaming the ~/.evolution/mail folder and creating a new one, then starting up evolution again results in a visible Inbox, and evolution starts downloading emails via pop from the account as it should. (see screen shot 3)
Switching mail/-folders again brings me back to the first state (no inbox, no messages, downloading fails).
I hope you can help me find those mails again or repair the mail folders.
that's pretty weird, since no updates went to hardy the previous days, did you tried removing the .index files (be careful to not delete the Inbox file) ? that should fix the issue. And no 2.22.3.1 is not a backport from Intrepid and moreover that was introduced into hardy the 2008-07-16 more than a month ago,so might be something else, thanks you.