[opensuse] Evolution on 11.4 imap problems.
I'm totally frustrated with Evolution on opensuse 11.4. I finally updated from 11.1 to 11.4 hoping to fix some nagging issues. Many of those issues were fixed but now I have evolution problems. I posted to Evolutions list but haven't received any replies so I'm hoping to get help here. I'm running evolution 2.32.1-9.12.1.x86_64. I connect a couple pop3 accounts and an imap account. The imap account is what seems to give me all the trouble. Every so often it will say checking for mail, the hard drive access is pegged, and machine becomes choppy until I kill evolution. I found that if I rename folders.db and restart a couple times I can get past it somehow, but it keeps coming back. If I leave imap off, I don't have a single problem. I was getting some memory errors when I ran evolution from an exterm window, but there's plenty of ram and swap available when the problem is happening. I've even tried upgrading to evolution 3, but I can get the migration to work. It seems to bring over my calendar data and contacts, but all the mail files fail to get brought over and converted to mbox. I even tried backing up and restoring through evolution and that failed too. Anyone have any suggestions? What other info could I provide? Any suggestions on upgrading to evo 3? I wouldn't mind trying that anyway. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 16:06 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
I'm totally frustrated with Evolution on opensuse 11.4. I finally updated from 11.1 to 11.4 hoping to fix some nagging issues. Many of those issues were fixed but now I have evolution problems. I posted to Evolutions list but haven't received any replies so I'm hoping to get help here.
I'm on that list; I must have overlooked your messages.
I'm running evolution 2.32.1-9.12.1.x86_64. I connect a couple pop3 accounts and an imap account. The imap account is what seems to give me all the trouble. Every so often it will say checking for mail, the hard drive access is pegged, and machine becomes choppy until I kill evolution.
Are you using IMAP or IMAPX?
I found that if I rename folders.db and restart a couple times I can get past it somehow, but it keeps coming back. If I leave imap off, I don't have a single problem.
Ok. When you remove folders.db have you ensured that no evolution processes are running? Have you tried connecting to the folders.db file using sqlite3 and running the vacuum command?
I've even tried upgrading to evolution 3, but I can get the migration to work. It seems to bring over my calendar data and contacts, but all the mail files fail to get brought over and converted to mbox. I even tried backing up and restoring through evolution and that failed too.
2.32 to 3 should work; and 3 is noticeably more stable. If backup/restore of *mail* is the issue that should be pretty simple. Your POP mail is local. I'd create an MBOX or Maildir account in 2.32 and just drag-n-drop the mail. Then you should be able to open those accounts in 3.x.
Anyone have any suggestions? What other info could I provide? Any suggestions on upgrading to evo 3? I wouldn't mind trying that anyway.
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Are you using IMAP or IMAPX?
Just IMAP.
I found that if I rename folders.db and restart a couple times I can get past it somehow, but it keeps coming back. If I leave imap off, I don't have a single problem.
Ok. When you remove folders.db have you ensured that no evolution processes are running?
Yes.
Have you tried connecting to the folders.db file using sqlite3 and running the vacuum command?
No, never heard of that. I will have to google if I want to try that.
I've even tried upgrading to evolution 3, but I can get the migration to work. It seems to bring over my calendar data and contacts, but all the mail files fail to get brought over and converted to mbox. I even tried backing up and restoring through evolution and that failed too.
2.32 to 3 should work; and 3 is noticeably more stable.
I've had no luck and tried it a few times and a couple different ways (automatic and from backup). Quite frustrating. I would like to get to 3 though.
If backup/restore of *mail* is the issue that should be pretty simple. Your POP mail is local. I'd create an MBOX or Maildir account in 2.32 and just drag-n-drop the mail. Then you should be able to open those accounts in 3.x.
I'm definitely willing to try this, but I have a lot of mail. My evolution backup when doing "Backup Evolution Settings..." is over 6gb. So I would create the account and use "Standard Unix mbox spool file"? Then copy everything into there? Would I copy all my sub folders and everything? Then upgrade to 3 and it should be able to read this format directly? Thanks for the help. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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