> > I may have guessed the problem. I had less free disk space than the size of > > the Inbox file, but not zero disk space either. I suspect that > > evolution corrupts the mail files when this happens. > > Yes, this sounds like the reason of the problem. Thus, I'm retitling. > > > Of course, this should not happen. > > Additionally, it ought to recover by regenerating the summary data and > > index. I got it to recover by manually deleting several files; these > > were then rebuilt. > > Ok, although I agree that what you experienced was not right, but I find > that the bug was that the message was not clear enough. > > If your disk is full, you'll experience many many problems, you'll lose > data and things like that. So it's not a good idea to have a full disk. I > don't think that Evolution should find a way to delete the messages even if > there isn't enough space, however, it should tell you what the problem is > and let you fix it.
I'm not saying that evolution should be able to delete when there isn't enough disk space. Evolution failed even after I freed up plenty of disk space. It had corrupted its database, and would not function again until I manually performed an undocumented procedure of deleting the summary data file and index files. The matter of a correct error message is secondary. The important thing is that evolution not corrupt its data files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
