[Evolution-users] Evolution stuck - suggested clean up procedure

[Luigi Cantoni]

On Mon, 2025-10-27 at 11:25 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 12:37 -0700, Van Snyder via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > In previous messages in this thread,
> 
> Ultimately the most sensible thing to do will be to discard all of your
> Evolution configuration (or at least move it aside) and start again
> setting things up in a clean environment.  You could, alternatively,
> create a new Linux account to make sure everything is clean and go from
> there. If that new account behaves properly, then you know there is
> something wrong with your original setup. Don't be tempted to restore
> Evolution from a backup or copy files from elsewhere.
> 
> You need to simplify things as much as possible - like only ever have
> one mail program accessing your mail; create one account at a time and
> make sure it works fully; if you come across a problem with an account,
> disable all the others and run Evolution from a terminal with debugging
> enabled.
> 
> P.
> 

> Hi Van,



I am not an Evolution expert but if it was me I would basically do what
Pete has suggested.
If possible I would use evolution to "Save to File" to copy out one
folder at a time.
You must highlight all emails in a folder and then you can write them
out as a single mbox type file.
(I have not found how to do this for sub-folders, in my case it will
take a while as I probably have a couple of hundred folders.)

Then as Pete suggests create up a new account.
I would try to run it "empty" for a bit to see how it goes and only
download etc as emails come in.
If needed read in any folders you "need" to be able to reply etc to
emails sent to you.
If this work fine for a few days then load up those folders that have
not given trouble.
After that probably do a backup before trying a few of the troublesome
ones so that you can easily go back should an issue arise.

Slowly step by step and either you will find the problem is not there
or you have isolated it down and can look at ways of solving the bit
with issues while email is basically working fine for you day to day.

-- 
Thanks
Luigi
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