Re: [Evolution] Endless "Empty cache file" errors

[Lindsay Haisley <fmouse fmp com>]

On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 14:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 11:40 -0700, fmouse wrote:
> > I'm having the same problem with evolution 3.18.5.2. It happens when 
> > new mail comes in while evolution is open and running, and the new 
> > mail is inaccessible and trying to open it gives "Unable to retrieve 
> > message. Empty cache file: /home/.... etc." I researched the problem 
> > and a few days ago read that this is a known problem and to date
> > there's no know fix,
> I've never seen such a message [speaking as a 24/7 Evolution user for
> more than a decade].

If you've never seen this message, and can't contribute anything
useful, please refrain from posting to this thread.

> What type of account is this?  Any change "/home" is full?  Or
> "/home"
> is an NFS mount?

I think it's been stated already that it's an IMAPx account, as is
mine. I'll see if I can find the reference to the problem that I found
earlier.

> > Evolution  is very old software and the code is a tangled mess.
> This statement is ludicrous. 

No it's not. Look at the source code. Look up the history of the
software, if you're not already familiar with it.

> >  It's great when it works,
> It is great when it works, which is pretty much always.

I've had evolution lose mail, get mailboxes totally confused, hang,
crash and refuse to run altogether. See <http://www.fmp.com/living_with
_evolution.html> which I wrote some years ago. It's still the mail
client which treats me most like a technically educated mail admin.

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