Hello, I had a quite old Inbox (835 MB worth). When I upgraded to Fedora 10, expunging my Inbox started to fail. Evolution would spin it wheels for quite some time and finally report the expunge had failed.
I tried to split my Inbox up into messages from 2000-2008 and leave only 2009 messages in my Inbox. Even so Evolution still failed to expunge the Inbox. So I set the problem a side to solve at a later date. The later data came along and I remembered "mutt" a command line e-mail client is really good at manipulating the mail box format that my Inbox is in. So I closed Evolution, "evolultion --force-shutdown" and I opened my Inbox with mutt. "mutt -f ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox". In mutt I simply deleted all the e-mails from 2000-2008, because I had moved those to another Inbox. I simply saved the Inbox back to disk without the deleted messages and quit mutt. I then re-opened the Inbox with Evolution. I tried to Expunge the much smaller Inbox (250 MB). It failed again but much quicker. I then had the bright idea to delete the Inbox index files (Inbox.ibex.index and Inbox.ibex.index.data). I then re-opened Evolution and the expunge was successful. So far the Inbox has expunged successfully for several days. If someone else suffers from the problem, I hope this technique is useful for them to resolve their problem. Of course, I would love to hear about an easier solution to this problem using only evolution utilities or widely available command line tools. Thank you, Rob -- Rob Seward Bluestone Consulting Group, LLC web: http://www.bluestone-consulting.com/ e-mail: rsew...@bluestone-consulting.com office: 734.274.5168 mobile: 734.604.3780 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list