Comment 28 for bug 325157

Yonas: the bug is not fixed in all evolution releases, and we can't be sure what platform Jack is on.

Jack, try this:

Quit evolution

from terminal, cd to the Evolution app directory.

Most often: /home/userID/.evolution

If that directory exists, then cd /mail/local

do an mv folders.db ../../oldfolders.db

do an mv *summary* ../../

This will get the summary files and database out of your way.

Start evolution up. If you have a lot of folders other than inbox, display the contents of each in turn (evolution will rebuild the contents of each before displaying them.)

If you had already issued the 'empty trash' command before getting rid of hte summary and folder.db files, you may well find that it is already emptied once you re-open.

Hope this helps.