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  1. Bug #483058
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 483058

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Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote : Re: evolution 2.28.1 says "Summary doesn't match the folder contents" after deleting/moving mails!

The problem seems limited to a very big local Inbox folder. My Inbox collects mails from three POP accounts and is 178 MB. One of the accounts is configured to "leave messages on server".

Now I found a "solution" for me: it's comment #4, but slightly modified: I shut down evolution, renamed Inbox to Inbox2 (and Inbox.sbd to Inbox2.sbd). I deleted all *index*, *meta*, and *cache* in .evolution/mail/local/ and restarted evolution offline. To my surprise all messages in Inbox seemed to reappear (from where??). But clicking on them showed "the message does not exist". Thus I selected them all and pressed Delete. This gave me finally an empty Inbox and a 178 MB Inbox2. Since then I moved/copied/deleted hundreds of mails to and from Inbox2 with no problems.

So just don't let your Inbox grow to 100 MB or more. (this is a good advice anyway ;-)