Comment 45 for bug 140460

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WartHog (tomus-suddenlink) wrote : Re: [Bug 140460] Re: Evolution : On startup unable to connect to POP server

I was fully updated with Ubuntu, and still had the problem.
I moved the files back in and out as instructed, and the problem was
resolved.

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:21 +0000, Paul Hambleton wrote:
> Are we sure that moving the emails is necessary. I haven't done anything
> at all and the problem disappeared for me at the same time everyone else
> started announcing the fix. Maybe one of the non-Evolution Ubuntu
> updates fixed it.
> Can anyone enlighten us further?
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:58 +0000, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> > Status: Triaged => Fix Released
> >
> --
> Paul Hambleton
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