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  1. Bug #1983794
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Comment 0 for bug 1983794

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Lindsay (fmouse) wrote :

Running Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. Evolution v3.44.1-0ubuntu1 was installed with the distribution on a new system and received settings imported from an earlier version on another computer.

When composing an email, if the process takes long enough an autosave file is created as ~/.local/share/evolution/.evolution-composer.autosave-xxxxxx ("xxxxxx" is a random 6 character string). When the email is successfully sent, the autosave file SHOULD be deleted. It's not. When evolution is shut down and restarted I'm asked if I want to recover an unfinished email. Answering No to this will delete the autosave file, but otherwise it persists and the recovery query recurs the next time I open evolution.

Other people are having the same issue, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1972. The Gnome people aren't dealing with it, perhaps considering it a distro-specific bug.

On a system used by many people this is a potential security issue.