How to recover from an Evolution crash

If you have been confronted by a recurring crash of the Evolution groupware client under linux (such as Application "Evolution-2.2" has quit unexpectedly, it may be because you enabled the Generates a D-BUS message when new mail arrives. This seemed to make my Evolution client unrecoverable. I found that a reinstall of the Evolution package kept my mail account conffigurations but defaulted mail notification back to none.