Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: >Hi, > >I was trying to migrate from Kmail to evolution and I found the following >problem. > >My mail folders are on a VFAT partition at Kmail and they work fine. I wanted >to do the same with the evolution ones. > >First I needed to migrate ALL my kmail folders to evolution which is VERY >painfull as you have to go ONE BY ONE, but it can be done. (If someone knows >how to automate I would like to know how) > >The main problem comes when I try to access mail folders at the VFAT >partition, the system complaints when I try chmods or chowns on VFAT becuase >VFAT does not have owner or permissions AND evolution tries to do some chmods >or chowns cause it gets blocked when trying to access those folders on the >VFAT partition. > >Do you know... > >A) How can I change the /etc/fstab to mount the vfat so to ignore chmods or >chowns intead of giving an error? > >or > >B) How can I make evolution work on a vfat partition where it cannot change >permissions or ownerships? > >Thanks in advance! > >Jose >
Unless you want to spend much time fixing things, avoid evolution as a mail client. It still has significant stability problems. Once I had over 100 messages, the reply button would freeze things, and I would have to kill processes one by one in an xterm to expinge evolution then restart X and even after all that, it still would freeze repeatedly. It is better than Aethera, which sets up nicely then segfaults, but not by much. Civileme > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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