On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 08:19 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
In evolution to the left of the screen there is a list of the names of the folders and next to the name in parenthesis a number representing the number of unread messages in the folder.
That is working except for Inbox. The number is not decremented when a message is read.
I did what has worked before in this situation. I cd to .local/share/evolution/mail/local_mbox and remove the file Inbox.ibex.index. But when I restart evolution the error remains and the Inbox.ibex.index is not recreated.
What can I do to fix this situation?
This has been discussed frequently on the Evolution mailing list. See for example: http://gnome-evolution-general.1774414.n4.nabble.com/The-Unread-count-bug-re...
Basically it's a bug. Recent versions of Evo are less prone than before, but it still occurs once in a while.
Something that might help is:
#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/ for i in `find . -name folders.db` do echo "Rebuilding Table $i" sqlite3 $i "vacuum;" done
Note that this is for Evo 3.x. Also, be sure to completely shut down Evo before running the above ("evolution --force-shutdown").
If that doesn't work, try the Evo list, but be sure to say which version of Evo you have (Help->Status), which you neglected to do here.
poc