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

[rsbrux]

Now that things look normal without synchronizing "Inbox" and "Sent", I
tried instead enabling "Synchronize remote mail locally in all folders"
under "Receiving Options" for the account.
As a result, Evolution now says it is syncing 1199 messages in INBOX.
This is better than the counts it displayed previously, which were
often over 3000.
However, there is no way that so many messages have been changed
(added, deleted or moved) since I turned off syncing for the INBOX
folder.

On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 14:53 +0200, rsbrux via evolution-users wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 08:05 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 05:24 +0200, rsbrux via evolution-users
> > wrote:
> > > Instead I have enabled "Copy folder content locally for offline
> > > operation" for only "Inbox" and "Sent"
> > > Since the delay doesn't occur all the time, I will have to watch
> > > for
> > > a couple of days to answer this question.
> > 
> Evolution appears to behave as expected now that I have disabled
> "Copy
> folder content locally for offline operation" for the folders for
> which
> it was enabled.
> 
> > 	Hi,
> > could it be the local cache of the messages has got vanished, then
> > it
> > wanted to download all the messages (not only the new messages) to
> > the
> > local storage? 
> This seems unlikely. The problem with synchronizing thousands of
> messages occurred every day or two, *before* I hosed Evolution's data
> store by forcibly interrupting it.  The cache was over 4 GB then; it
> is
> now over 5 GB.
> 
> > You said there are dozens of the new messages; how many
> > messages in total are there in these folders?
> The Inbox has over 5k messages.
> The sent folder has less than 500.