On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 10:39 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 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?? > > > > > > I can't see anywhere where you say how you know it's looking in that > > > directory? > > > > As I wrote above, that directory is the latest updated under .local: > > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<some_strange_directory_name> > > containing the above mentioned files. Among the files the folders.db > > (but as you say, not real mbox files). > > !! So you are basing your assertion that Evolution is looking in the > wrong place for the mail on the fact that a directory under .local > happens to be updated at the same time - the directory that contains all > the indexing for the account in question - indexing that *will* be > updated when the account is accessed??
I'm just saying the when I created the new mbox file account after removing the old, this directory was created, containing these files. The pop account I have is also having a strange name, but that directory contains: folders.db, uid-cache and a subdirectory cache containing the actual mail files (in maildir format?). > Have you actually looked to see if the actual spool file is accessed at > all? How to know if evo tries to accesses it? logcheck is reporting there so this spool file is updated often. > Note though, the file will NOT be updated because you haven't > changed anything in it. Evo is reporting several thousands of mails available but cannot find the mails themselves. > Have you even tried running Evolution from the command line to see if > there are any errors reported? Have you tried doing it with debugging > turned on? >From command line yes. That is where the message below comes from: (evolution:8019): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Failed to refresh folders: Error storing 'mailbox: /<username>/INBOX (spool)': Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync I have also been running evo with debugging before, but forgot it by now. (It's not the first time there are problems with evo) How to enable debugging info? > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Did you do this? > > > > No I did not, I don't want to clutter my computer with another user > > (will do that if really necessary). > > So rather than try the debugging steps to attempt to isolate your > problem you would prefer to keep your filesystem looking pretty? You do > realise that you can delete the account (and all its files) afterwards? In will try next time I have access to that box again, yes. > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > You change it from within Evolution. > > > > OK, and it looks like dconf does not find anything useful. > > Yes, because it uses gconf - everything will be switched to dconf soon. 3.6? This one will definitely not be part of Debian/Wheezy. > > > to see it. These chunks of XML are sometimes difficult to sort out, but > > > you are looking for a line that starts "<account name="nameofaccount"". > > > In that line there should be a section looks like > > > <url>spool:/var/mail/username</url> - do you see that? > > > > Yes I see it now: <url>spool:///var/mail/"username"</url> > > It seem to be correct, why does not evo find it? > > > > Does it really have three slashes in the URL? Does it have three > slashes in the configuration within Evolution? Because it doesn't on my > system. Perhaps that is confusing things. Yes, there are three slashes. The pop and imap accounts has two! Can I edit that in some easy way, using gconftool-2? Or can I edit the %gconf.xml file directly? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
