Forcing Evolution to re-index its mailbox file by deleting the associated files with the extensions ".index", and "cmeta" in "~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd" didn't help. The size of the mailfox file for that folder was surprisingly 4GB. Not sure this is the cause of the problem though.
To fix this, I
- Created a new folder in Evolution.
- Moved all emails from the folder that had the problem to the new folder. Be patient as this took ages. Evolution was synchronising the folder repeatedly for hours while moving the emails. After it finished, the mailbox file size of the new folder was just a bit over 200 MB.
- Closed Evolution and deleted the bad folder by removing all of its associated files (mailbox, cmeta, index, and data files) in "~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd" because trying to delete it in Evolution gave this error:-
Refs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=974536
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