Have you been using 1.3.92, or upgraded to it? Did you edit your account?
There was a bug around the end of 1.3.x development (and in 1.4.0) which breaks local delivery, and the patch missed the 1.4.0 release by a few hours :(. See bug 43974 for details and the patch. Check using: egrep "mbox:[^;&]*;path" ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml If that returns a line, then you have the problem. You can either stick to using the 'standard spool' option, or try this: quit evo run these commands: gconftool-2 shutdown sed -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED](mbox:[^;&]*\);path=[^&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@g' < ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml > tmp.xml mv tmp.xml ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml (or just edit the %gconf.xml file manually, and change all occurances of "mbox:/var/mail/user;path=/var/mail/user" to "mbox:/var/mail/user") restart evo. If you re-edit the account, i think it gets reset :-/ On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:44, Peter.OShea wrote: > I've been using 1.3.92 and have had no problems until last week, when it > stopped retrieving mail. I'm using "Local delivery" with mail delivered > to the system file /var/mail/$USER. I don't know what triggered it, but > evo stopped pulling mail from /var/mail/$USER. I tried switching account > types to "Standard UNIX mbox", and evo then sees what's in /var/mail/$USER, > but doesn't move it. > > Is there some sort of mail lock file that could be present, keeping evo > from moving mail from the system mbox file? I tried deleting the > contents of .gconf, .gconfd, and moving ~/evolution out of the way, > then restarting gnome and evo - no success. > > This is evo 1.3.92 compiled from source on a sparc Solaris 8 box with > gnome 2.3. Thanks for any help. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
