[Evolution-users] Is this normal?

[Van Snyder]

On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 15:49 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> As for your other problems.  I think lots of people have tried to
> help
> you with it in the past with, apparently, little success.  It is
> almost
> certainly not an issue with Evolution per se - we would see many,
> many
> more complaints and questions about it if it were so. I've been using
> Evolution for many years with a variety of account types and I have
> never seen what you are describing.  So it seems that there is
> something specific with your setup.

That's why I asked if there was something in my setup I could
investigate for you. Somebody (maybe you) told me to delete the *.cmeta
and *.ibex.* files to see if that corrected the "stuck in MH" problem
(it didn't). Jeremy Bicha claims to have found that problem, and
offered to prepare a beta for me to test before he back-ports it to
Trixie.

I don't remember any advice about what to investigate to discover the
disappearing-message problem. Maybe I missed it.

> Do you have anything else accessing the email store - another
> instance
> of Evolution? A Thunderbird running on a different machine? An app on
> your phone or tablet? An internet service that you have given access
> to
> your mail? (I believe things like Gmail can use an external IMAP
> server
> as can some of the other web based apps.)

I don't have any other mail readers on my main computer looking at
those accounts. I have a gmail account open in firefox because they
insist on oath2 which I haven't been able to get working in Evolution,
but I don't access my sbcglobal.net accounts through firefox because
their user interface is even worse than gmail. I have an evolution
reader active on my laptop, looking at my sbcglobal.net accounts, but
it's (necessarily) just sitting there while I'm in a different room
using my main computer, and vice versa.

The Evolution on my laptop is presently stuck, probably because I
accidentally rsync'd all of .local instead of just one file. I deleted
all my accounts in Evolution on that computer and re-created them. Now
it asks for my password but never manages to log in, although it does
display messages that are older than the time when I did that rsync. I
might create a new home directory for myself, with a different name,
rsync only my folders that don't begin with a dot, swap the names, and
re-create my KDE settings and Evolution settings. Unless somebody has a
better idea.


Is there a way to save just my settings — not a full backup — and
install them onto a different computer?
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