[Evolution-users] Stuck opening folder

[Pete Biggs]

On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 14:18 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> Evolution 3.46.4.2 in Debian 12 is stuck opening a folder, and
> "checking for new mail in 'Storage.'" The folder it's trying to open
> is in the Storage "account." Storage is an MH-Format archive on my
> local disk. It's MH format because I switched from EXMH to Evolution
> about thirty years ago. Why is Evolution checking for new mail in an
> MH-format archive?

Because you haven't told it not to? (There's a tick-box under
"Receiving  Options" in the account editor to enable/disable checking
for new messages.)

[Start Evolution from the command line with 'evolution --offline' so
you can look at the config without it checking the folders.]

> 
> I pushed the little buttons consisting of a circle with red dots in
> them in the bottom pane to cancel them. Now they say "(calcelling)"
> but they never finish — I've waited three days so far. If I kill
> evolution (either with the "quit" button at the top right or Alt-Q or
> by sending "kill -9"), when it restarts it starts looking for new
> mail and trying to open the same folder.
> 
> Is this "memory" of unfinished work stored somewhere that I can
> delete?
> 
I suspect there is something wrong with that folder then - simple
questions, does it actually exist and is it readable?  Is the location
of the MH folder correct in the account config? (But I suspect if
either of those are the problem, it should just give up immediately!)

If you run Evolution from the command line does it give any errors?

Could the folder format have become corrupted?

P.