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how to setup gmail

Asked by kingspan

I can not find emails from my inbox beyond about 5 weeks. I know they are there because when I boot to XP and use Outlook it displays the older messages. I looked for any option to show older emails but did not find any.

Thank in advance for any suggestions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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kingspan (garryg) said : 		#2

I still need an answer. Is this happening to anyone else?

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Best Timothy Alexander (dragonfyre13) said : 		#3

Just put the below into a script and run it. It fixes it, and a few other miscelaneous problems with the exchange plugin. (I ran into the same issue a few moments ago.)

Basically, this just deletes the cache for the exchange server. It doesn't affect your settings or anything, but it deletes the cache so it has to reload all of it on next restart of evolution.

#!/bin/bash

if (zenity --question --text="Are you sure you want to do this? It will make evolution very slow on next start.")
then
        evolution --force-shutdown
        evolution --force-shutdown
        rm -rf ~/.evolution/exchange ~/.evolution/mail/exchange
fi

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kingspan (garryg) said : 		#4

It worked. Thank you very much Tim!

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kingspan (garryg) said : 		#5

Thanks Timothy Alexander, that solved my question.

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) said : 		#6

It works, but my question is: the script fixes temporarily the problem or does it fix it permanently? In other words, it seem that the script repairs the symptom and not the cause...

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Jaidev (skjaidev) said : 		#7

I see the same issue, but without exchange. One of my folders doesn't show all the emails in it although the total count is shown correctly.

I verified that I haven't restricted the view through searches or something!

Any clues?

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Jaidev (skjaidev) said : 		#8

Nevermind, this was plaguing me for a while so I fired up vim and wiped out all X-Evolution headers. Now I can see all emails on that folder!

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Maarten Bezemer (veger) said : 		#9

It helped fix my cache as well. Thanks Timothy!
(I guess a problem with the evolution cache still exists... even years after this question was posted...)