On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:32 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:08 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On my machine expunge in evolution-2.28.2-1.fc12.i686 is no longer > > working so the deleted messages are building up. What does one do in > > this case to fix this problem? > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Expunge works in all the folders except Inbox, Junk and Trash. > > Maybe it is not supposed to work in Trash. > > Yeah, I have no idea why this is taking years (literally) to fix. Its > like the Novell dev guys are purposely sabotaging Gnome users or > something. The first reports that I sent in of this problem were on > Fedora 4, and its still there and still biting an awful lot of users > over and over again. Not only have I never seen this, I don't recall even hearing about it, at least in these terms, despite being on the Evo list for lo these many years. IOW I doubt it's all that common. Be that as it may, one thing to try is to completely quit Evo ("evolution --force-shutdown") and run the following script, which cleans up Evo's SQL databases: #!/bin/sh cd ~/.evolution/mail/ for i in `find . -name folders.db` do echo "Rebuilding Table $i" sqlite3 $i "vacuum;" done BTW the OP didn't say whether his mail is on an IMAP server or not. This could possibly be relevant. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines