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When I send a mail, it takes several minutes (~20) to finish this task. I can see a status bar item, percents increasing.
I wouldn't mind much; the problem is that until it's done, I can't see the mail in the Sent folder and can't work with it.



This behavior started without any reconfiguration.
Other users of the same mail server do not experience this trouble.



How can I fix this?



Versions:
Ubuntu 11.04
Evolution 2.32.2



Update:
I found out that the messages are actually staying in Outbox and not outgoing at all if one particular SMTP server is used.
When I tried to "Flush" the Outbox, it shown "Sending...", but nothing changed nor was sent.
When I try to "expunge" outbox, Evolution says: 



MBOX file corrupted, expected From: but didn't find.


and later



Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync


Any idea how to fix this? Preferably without need to drop & set up everything anew.



And where does Evolution store it's .mbox files? ~/.evolution does not exist.
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ only contains configuration.


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Ok so I have figured out few things.



1) The files are in MBOX format, but not named *.mbox.



2) They are stored in .local/share/evolution/mail/local, at least in my case.



3) Non-redundant data are stored in the files without suffix. The rest is generated and can be deleted manually and re-generated (.ibex, .index etc.)



4) Exporting backup and restoring from it did not help. Seems that evolution just gzips the files as is.



So what fixed it for me was:




  1. Close Evolution

  2. Delete /home/ondra/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Outbox.* (NOT that without suffix)

  3. Launch Evolution


  4. Fix your SMTP if necessary to make all mails go.


  5. Flush Outbox to send pending messages and get them moved to IMAP server (deleted locally)

  6. Close Evolution

  7. Delete Oubox* - this time all Outbox files. All mails shown in Evolution at this time are probably broken and unrecoverable (easily). Outbox will be recreated.

  8. Delete folders.db - it will get recreated from the MBOX files

  9. Launch Evolution



Tadaa!



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