Folder just appeared in Evolution... didn't put it there, and it wouldnt let me delete it.

[Jay Daniels]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 03:12 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Weird, and sudden issue with Evolution, and I'm clueless...
> 
> I just got home (late), sat down to read through the few emails that had
> filtered in, when I noticed a new folder under "On this Computer" called
> "gmane.linux.ubuntu.user"
> 
> I did not add this folder, and Evolution won't delete this folder. if I
> right-click on it, and check "properties", it fails with the message: 
>     Error Processing: This is not a valid file
> 
> and trying to delete it did nothing.
> 
> Finally, I closed Evolution, went to ~/.evolution/mail/local and deleted
> the folder from there... then restarted Evolution, and a few minutes
> later, the folder came back!
> 
> This time, I was able to right-click on it, and delete it, but I'm
> concerned that it will come back yet again.
> 
> I'll be closing Evo for tonight to experiment... just to make sure. 
> 
> I also checked my firewall out of habit, and noticed some odd (blocked)
> activity from the past few hours... I've included the hit log below:
> 
>         Time:Sep 10 19:29:39 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:60979
>         Source:91.189.88.37 Destination:192.168.2.4 Length:1500 TOS:0x00
>         Protocol:TCP Service:Unknown
>         Time:Sep 10 20:26:29 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:55746
>         Source:80.176.67.229 Destination:192.168.2.4 Length:1458
>         TOS:0x00 Protocol:TCP Service:Unknown
>         Time:Sep 10 20:29:05 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:49904
>         Source:192.168.2.30 Destination:192.168.2.4 Length:368 TOS:0x00
>         Protocol:UDP Service:Unknown
>         Time:Sep 10 22:11:20 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:
>         Source:71.48.163.241 Destination:192.168.2.4 Length:56 TOS:0x00
>         Protocol:ICMP Service:Unknown
>         Time:Sep 11 00:57:50 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:
>         Source:66.198.2.37 Destination:192.168.2.4 Length:56 TOS:0x00
>         Protocol:ICMP Service:Unknown
>         
> Anybody have any clues about this?
> 
> 


Do you have a ~/.procmailrc ?



jay