[Evolution] Unable to receive mail [was conversion failure...]

2011-07-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Sorry to trouble you with continued problems... I have created a new account for myself using KDE, and am slowly bringing in data from my old home directory. I backed up my old evolution data, started evolution in a clean directory, and restored the backed up data. Started evolution, went

Re: [Evolution] Unable to receive mail [was conversion failure...]

2011-07-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 00:20 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: location of the mailbox (Configuration Path) from which it should be fetched as /var/spool/mail/jonrysh, and the location and password for the smtp server to which outgoing mail is to be sent. Now outgoing mail works fine, however...

Re: [Evolution] Unable to receive mail [was conversion failure...]

2011-07-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 00:20 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Incoming mail is never included. When I click Send/Receive a progress box appears very briefly (maybe about 100 msec), about the time it has appeared in the past for an empty spool file, no mail in included, and the mail spool file

Re: [Evolution] Unable to receive mail [was conversion failure...]

2011-07-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: Clearly the configuration is wrong. Evolution thinks that /var/spool/mail/jonrysh is your actual local mailstore, whereas in fact it's the mail spool file (and of course not a directory). My setup is exactly the same (and has always been so) and it works, so I've no