Comment 30 for bug 197290

Thanks Jashk,

It turns out that I wasn't suffering from the 2GB inbox issue afterall.
The whole /shared folder (includes home directories, which have inbox
files) was full. So, evolution wasn't able to work with the Inbox file,
not because it was too big, but because the whole computer filesystem
was compromised due to a lack of space.

We dealt with that (but only after I had openned the Inbox in vi
(editor) and deleted half of it (simply by removing half of the lines in
the file). I made a backup (or at least I thought I did), but that
didn't work (due to a full filesystem).

So, after clearing a lot of space, I hoped evolution would be back in
business. Initially it wasn't. Next step: Rename Inbox index files
and restart evolution allowing it to rebuild index files for the now
half-size Inbox. This took some time but worked. I am missing half of
my Inbix, but that's all mail that's more than a year old. I think I
can live without it.

I think this foolishness might be informative for some people (I am
probably not the first person to misdiagnose the problem); I am
considering posting it. Also, because I thought my problem was due to
the 2GB Inbox size limitation, I learned about archivemail, something I
hadn't heard of until now.

I do have one remaining issue. Evolution crashes when I shut it down.
I don't know why, but so far I haven't found any negative consequences.

Cheers,

John

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 22:11 +0000, jashk wrote:
> Hey JohnT,
> I had exactly the same problem and the only way to resolve that was deleting enought files to allow archivemail to handle 4 gigas (two for the Inbox file and two others for backing up it seems). Once I had space enough it worked well.
> So, you need to make more space on your hard disk.
> If you delete Inbox you will lose all your mails placed on inbox. Evolution will work but it won't show you your emails from Inbox (because you deleted them). All the other folders you have will be shown without any problem.
> Good luck
> Jashk
>