Milan, Problem solved! Thanks! The issue was not the use of symlinks, but the fact that the drive they were pointing to was formatted as NTSF. My entry in /etc/fstab was:
LABEL=Mail /mnt/Mail ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,x-gvfs-show 0 0 Which works well in other places I use NTFS partitions in Linux. However, the NTFS formatting seems to mess with the attributes and/or the permissions. I moved all mail to an ext4 partition, redirected the symbolic links and now the signatures work as expected. All the best, Paulo On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:39 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 09:21 -0500, Paulo Cesar G. Costa wrote: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 20 21:20 evolution -> /mnt.... > > Hi,having the file owned by root:root, instead of pc:pc, looks a > bitsuspicious, despite the "everyone can do everything" attributes. > > Thus, given that:1) I cannot find anything that would indicate an issue in > > the filesystem2) The signature files are being properly saved by evolution > > in thecorrect folder and the fact that the error messages point to a NULL > > symlink, my bestguess is that something internal to Evolution may be causing > > it tonot follow the symlink. > > Okay, that you symlink the files into a mounted partition is kind ofimportant > detail, because it's not the standard way of runningEvolution. > It seems that the code thinks that your signature is a script. > That'srecognized by file attributes. Does the file in /mnt/.... have > theexecutable attribute set? What is the partition type of the /mnt/Mail?Some > can "garbage" file attributes used by Linux systems. Bye, Milan > _______________________________________________evolution-list mailing > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list >
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