[Evolution-users] Evolution spends a lot of time synchronizing old messages with Yahoo

[rsbrux]

On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 11:59 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> This is bad practice in general, not just for Evolution. With modern
> journalling filesystems the risks are somewhat reduced, but it's not
> something I would ever do by choice. What filesystem are you using?
> 
I am / was painfully aware that this is bad practice, but I did it
anyway, in a fit of pique.  
I have since recovered from a backup, so this is not the issue.
The issue is Evolution's repeated insistence on synchronizing thousands
of messages offline, when no more than a dozen or two have actually
changed.
This was the proximate cause of my ill-advised power off.