Serious Evolution Problem

[wade at wadesmart.com]

10132006 1320 GMT-6

I got this error:
/home/wadesmart/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: ASCII mail text, with very long lines

The file is there but at 1.2GB in size, isnt that too large for a text editor? 
Wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Serious Evolution Problem
> From: James Strandboge <jamie at strandboge.com>
> Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 1:01 pm
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:30 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:
> > 10132006 1227 GMT-6
> > 
> > Jamie, Im not having success.
> > 
> > type
> > 
> > $ file ./.evolution/mail/local/Inbox 
> > 
> > That gives me an error.
> 
> I was more responding to the other poster who said evolution didn't use
> mbox.  You didn't say what folder in evolution your mail was in, but if
> it was in your Inbox folder, and you got a file not found error with
> this command (as the user who's mail was lost, not as root or some other
> user):
> 
> $ file ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox
> 
> then you will have to restore from backup, because the file is gone.
> 
> Jamie
> 
> 
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