No mail messages shown in folder under Inbox in Evolution

rajesh.bahl · 12-08-2010, 01:22 PM

Hi !

On opening evolution on my CentOS 5.5, one of the folders under Inbox showed no mails. On seeing the size of the corresponding file, it was found to be 2 GB in size.I tried to rename the file but evolution did not allow me to do that. I shut down and restarted evolution.Now that folder is totally missing from the view. I have very important mails in that folder.

Can some one suggest method how can I recover those mails ?

Thanks In Advance
rajesh.bahl

John VV · 12-08-2010, 01:52 PM

some more details would be nice

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I tried to rename the file but evolution did not allow me to do that

the folder is not owned by normal users -- this is very normal .

just HOW did you try ??

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I shut down and restarted evolution

just how did you do that?
from the terminal ?from a gui? how ?

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Now that folder is totally missing from the view

missing from where ?
is the folder there in the file system?

rajesh.bahl · 12-09-2010, 08:37 AM

1. A small correction - I tried renaming a folder.

2.I shutdown normally by clicking the cross button on top right.

3. In GUI only.

4. Missing from the list of folders in the left pane of Evolution.

rajesh.bahl

John VV · 12-09-2010, 04:35 PM

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"I shutdown normally by clicking the cross button on top right."

so you turned off the gui and not the mail client

is the mail stored on your local harddrive or on a different server ?

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4. Missing from the list of folders in the left pane of Evolution.

if the mail is stored on your local drive is the folder still there with it's original name or the new name .
look in ~/.evolution/mail

gui's do not show and do everything

rajesh.bahl · 12-17-2010, 12:15 PM

There is a file with the name of Old folder with 2 GB size.