On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 15:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 11:34 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > severity 640851 serious
> > > found 640851 3.4.3-1
> > > found 640851 3.4.4-1
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > I was waiting for the latest bugfix release to see if the local mailbox
> > > spool problem was solved. Unfortunately it was not :( Local mails are
> > > delivered to /var/mail/<username> and these are the settings used for
> > > the local mail account in evo. However, evo looks for this mailbox file
> > > at  ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<some_strange_directory_name>
> > > containing the following files: INBOX.ibex.index.data, INBOX.ibex.index,
> > > INBOX.cmeta, folders.db
> 
> They are the normal indexing and config files for mail accounts - they
> don't contain any emails.

It seem like evo is looking for the mails in that directory??

> > > 
> > > Removing these files and restarting evo does not help: evo complains
> > > about: "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync"
> > > In the settings the local account is flagged as of type spool and for
> > > Receiving Email the setting is: Standard Unix mbox spool file.
> > 
> > More information: Evolution tries to store the mailbox entry
> > at /<username>/INBOX which doesn't exist, when the mbox file is
> > at /var/mail/<username> . That filename is given in the evo settings for
> > that mail account, but is not honored??
> > 
> > (evolution:8019): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Failed to refresh folders:
> > Error storing 'mailbox: /<username>/INBOX (spool)': Summary and folder
> > mismatch, even after a sync
> > 
> 
> As far as I can see what you are trying to do works fine on my box (Evo
> 3.4.4 on FC17) - i.e. I can create an account of type "Standard Unix
> mbox spool file" and point it at /var/spool/mail/<username> and it
> displays the mail in the mail spool.

I deleted the mbox account, the directory and created a new account in
evo. Same problem!

> It really sounds as though there is something up with your configuration
> somewhere. Can I suggest that you create another Unix user with a clean
> configuration and try the same thing.  If it works, then you should
> delete the configuration from within Evolution, then close Evo and check
> in gconf (or is it dconf for 3.4) that everything has gone, then delete
> the corresponding directory in .local/share/evolution/mail. You should
> then have a clean configuration and you can recreate the account with
> Evolution.

I did not find any mail accounts when finally discovering evolution
under org/gnome/evolution. Seems like the version there is 3.4.0 while
3.4.4 is installed. Under org/gnome/evolution/mail I found a lot of
settings, but nowhere any info about my pop and imap accounts. However,
under default account there was a _very_ old account name no longer in
use. It does not seem to be editable in dconf?? How to change that if
needed?


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