On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 16:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I have installed ( instead of upgraded ) F10 over an existing F9
I just finished going through the same Evolution upgrade here; Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 and I use maildir for local storage. The thing to remember is that these days Evolution considers local maildir storage to be a "protocol" for a "remote account" like POP3 or IMAP. On older versions of Evolution, it was considered just another file format for local storage (as it should be IMHO) - so you just selected maildir instead of mbox and for the storage format of a given folder and you were done. It's much more complicated to set up now: Go to Edit -> Preferences Select "Mail accounts" Click "add" And then follow the dialogs to set it up as if you were setting up a remote email account. When you get to the "Receiving Email" section select "maildir" for the server type. It will ask you for a directory path and you can point it to the maildir directory you preserved from your old Evolution setup. You'll have to duplicate your SMTP server setup too - or at least I haven't found a way to have it use the SMTP server from the real mail account when using maildir storage. This process also generates several superfluous folders including inbox, junk, drafts, and trash. There doesn't appear to be any way to delete these but you can safely ignore them as they'll never be used. If you're like me and get your mail through a POP3 or IMAP account, you'll have to build a system of filters to get the mail from the POP3 inbox into the local maildir storage folders. So: One other thing to look out for on Fedora 10 + Evolution is that all your mail filters will stop working. Even if you delete them and recreate them, they'll die with an error saying they can't find the folder when you attempt to use them. This is a known bug and has apparently been fixed for at least for the default mbox storage but still doesn't work for maildir storage (not for me anyway). There are some steps you can go through to manually edit the XML file that stores the filters. You can find more info here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474695 -Steve _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
