Bug 436170 - evolution can't read /var/spool/mail
Summary: evolution can't read /var/spool/mail
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-05 19:03 UTC by john bray
Modified: 2008-03-05 19:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-05 19:34:46 UTC
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Description john bray 2008-03-05 19:03:06 UTC
Description of problem:
every few weeks, evolution suddenly displays error messages on my
/var/spool/mail mail account thus:
Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync

this is root's forwarded mail.  it's IMPORTANT.

even blowing away all the index etc stuff in .evolution for that account doesn't
help.  only blowing away all mail actually in /var/spool/mail/<user> fixes it. 
which means i loose my root mail history.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.10.3-7.fc7                        Fri Jan 11 23:39:02 2008


How reproducible:
intermittently.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open evolution.  click on that folder.
2. observe message
3. mail is listed, but contents unavailable
  
Actual results:
as above

Expected results:
reading forwarded root mail.

Additional info:

loosing root's mail every week or two isn't really an option!

i did find an evolution bug that talked a bit about this and mentioned a
supposedly fixed version, which was a significantly higher release number than
we have in f7.  dammit, i can't find that bug now.  sorry.

i'm ready to help if you need it.

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-05 19:34:46 UTC
The bug was [1], which was fixed recently and will be in Fedora 9.

Current Rawhide packages already have the fix.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213072


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