Hello, Please file a bug about issue with directory, and write there what is the protocol for the account before any change, maybe a migration code didn't start properly for you. It's viewable in Edit->Preferences, Mail Accounts.
As a workaround, try other type of your receiving server type, go to Edit->Preferences, Mail accounts, edit >your account<, go to tab "Receiving options" and change "Server type" to "Standard Unix mbox spool file", this change will allow you to point not on a directory, but on a file, so choose it instead of a directory. Hope that helps, Milan Crha On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 17:09 -0400, Peter Spotts wrote: > Folks, > > I'm using Evo 2.12 on Ubunty Gutsy beta. Instead of drawing in my email > directly into Evo using pop3 settings, I've tried to set Evo up to use > local delivery. When I try to configure the path, the dialog allows me > to get as far as /var/spool/mail. But it doesn't recognize the mbox file > there with my user name (the only one in the folder). It's shaded out. > I've tried changing the permissions on the file, and on the string of > folders leading to it. But to no avail. I can see that > fetchmail/procmail is tacking new mail onto the mbox file. But when I > try to pull that email into Evolution, I get an error message that > reads: > > "Could not open mail file /var/spool/mail: Is a directory" > > Well, I know it's a directory. I recall that when set to "local > delivery," 2.10 recognized the users file inside that directory without > blinking, as it were. The only other way I can get this to work is if I > use the settings that store my local email in a new series of folders > in /var/spool/mail. And I don't want to do that if I can avoid it... > > It there a workaround for this, other than going back to using pop3 > settings? Or is there some blatantly obvious setting that I've > overlooked? > > With best regards, > > Pete _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list