evolution won't clear its cache

[Chris Moore]

I just tried using evolution. Usually I just use gmail on the web, but thought
it would be good to have a copy of my email locally as well.

I set up the gmail account in evolution and started POP'ing the email onto my
PC. At first it was popping 284 messages each time I did a "send and receive"
which was OK, but after the first 4 or 5 batches, it started downloading just 3
or 5 messages each time. This was going to take far too long, and I was still
only on June's messages. I decided to give up, deleted all the messages from
the folders on my PC, deleted the folders I had made, emptied the trash and then
deleted the account from evolution. Then I quit evolution.

Imagine my surprise when I found that ~/.evolution is still using over 200Mb of
disk space:

  $ du -hs ~/.evolution
  202M /home/chris/.evolution

It turns out that all the big files are here:

  201M /<email address hidden>@pop.gmail.com/cache

Why didn't it delete that directory when I deleted the account from evolution?
Or when I exited evolution? I don't see any option anywhere to "empty cache".

I would just zap the whole ~/.evolution directory, but I use the task list
occasionally. Is it safe to delete the cache directory?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246213: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246213

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

I forgot to mention. This is on the latest breezy package:

  Installed: 2.4.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.4.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's know upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246213

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

Note that the upstream bug isn't quite the same. I was using POP3, and the
upstream bug is about IMAP. It may be the same bug.

And anyway, even if I didn't delete the account I still wouldn't want 200Mb of
files sitting in my cache directory.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's the same bug, the type of account is a detail

[David Planella (dpm)]

@ Pedro Villavicencio:

Same comment as on the other Evo bug (90258).

why was the status of this bug, which has also been confirmed upstream, been changed from "Confirmed" to "Triaged" without a comment?

Maybe I'm interpreting wrongly what "Triaged" means, but I do not see a reason to change its status when it has been confirmed already.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Triaged means the bug has passed thru initial review, it is considered a real bug, and it is now being now put available for the maintainers to work on.

Of old, this would be the Confirmed status.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Ok, I understand it, thanks for the clarification.

[Frodon (frodon)]

Same goes when you delete a bunch of messages to free some space the result is that you delete mails through evolution but you get no free space.

Seems to be basic feature but it's still not there, lets cross our fingers for solution or at least a workaround.

[Frodon (frodon)]

Could at least this be packed in the next ubuntu deb ? :
http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

change status in Fix Released (see gnome - bugs)