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

[Milan Crha]

On Wed, 2025-04-30 at 16:17 +0200, rsbrux via evolution-users wrote:
> Before I turned off folder sync yesterday, I left the computer on
> overnight to make sure that it had finished syncing.
> There should therefore have only been new messages (added moved or
> deleted in the last day) to sync when I turned on the account sync
> today, not 1199 of them.

	Hi,
I agree, it suggests the download stopped "in the middle" for some
reason. You can restart the download by File->Download messages for
offline usage menu option.

By the way, when you File->Quit and evo does not want to go, you can
right-click the window button in the window list and pick "Close"
again, then you'll be asked whether it should keep waiting or close
immediately. There's a minute or some timeout for it. It allows to stop
the app gracefully even when it's busy/stuck on anything.

> I presume that I should run something like:
> > flatpak kill org.gnome.Evolution
> > CAMEL_DEBUG=downsync flatpak run org.gnome.Evolution >& evolution.log
> in a terminal window.

Correct. If you wish, you can use "CAMEL_DEBUG=downsync,imapx:io" to
also see (interleaved) the raw connection traffic. It exposes almost
everything private, especially the messages content, thus you can try
without it first. Even with the shorter log, be careful what you share
in public, if anything.

	Bye,
	Milan