Comment 40 for bug 140460

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Paul Hambleton (phambleton-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 140460] Re: Evolution : On startup unable to connect to POP server

I haven't done anything and the fault has gone away! The version is
still 2.12.1 which had the problem up until yesterday but now each time
I start Evolution it just works.
What happened?
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:57 +0000, Jochen Jansen wrote:
> Yes,
> I can confirm that! Weird, but this works.
> Thank you, this bug was really annoying.
>
> Am Freitag, den 04.01.2008, 01:32 +0000 schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> > I have a workaround:
> >
> > Move all your mails from the inbox to another folder. Then close
> > Evolution. Goto ~/.evolution/mail/local/ and remove all files beginning
> > with Inbox (in my case there were six files). Now you can start
> > Evolution again and move the mails back to the inbox. The bug
> > disappeared.
> >
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Jochen Jansen
>
> *Linux: It's free!*
>
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