[Evolution-users] Is this normal?

[Pete Biggs]

On Fri, 2025-10-17 at 11:57 -0700, Van Snyder via evolution-users
wrote:
> Evolution 3.56.1-1 on KDE Plasma 6.3.6 on Debian Trixie 13 fills the
> bottom pane with
> 
> Re… Re… St… Re… Ch… Re… St… Ex… St… O… O…
> 
> Refresh doesn't work. Expunge doesn't work.
> 
> My accounts are IMAP.

But then a couple of messages later you say that it gets stuck on one
of your local MH folders.

You seem to have had problems with the MH folders for about a year now.
Do you actually *need* them to be MH format?  It might help if you
converted them to Maildir format using something like the 'mh2maildir'
script (make sure you keep a backup of the original directories
though). Doing this will also indicate any issues with the MH files and
possibly correct the issues as well as it does the conversion.

As for evolution getting stuck - the symptoms seem to indicate it is
having problems accessing one or more folders. For IMAP folders, the
usual cause is network issues: things like timeouts or routing
problems, check that you don't have IPv6 enabled (or if you want to use
it, check that all routes to the destination support it). For local
folders it could be issues like corrupt files or directories, or even
bad disk blocks - are there any indications of disk issues in the
system logs?

Finally, if they are timeout issues, then you may need to wait longer -
timeouts are sometimes of the order of 5, 10, 15 minutes.

P.