Re: [Evolution] [HELP] mail component wont start

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

Almost the same thing happened to me. Whenever I tried to change the storage format, the mail component dies. I tried to change the format of the folder "Evolution" that has all the mailing list mails from mbox to maildir. The mail component crashed, and when I restarted evolution, the format is back to mbox in the "Properties" window. But when I looked at the folder in a terminal, I noticed that the mbox file got converted into a mbox directory with the sub-directories cur, tmp, and new.

Ujwal

On 19 Aug 2001 18:26:05 -0700, Ricardo Contreras wrote:
> in trying out the mail folder conversion feature... my mail component
> crashed.  leaving me with a malfunctioning Evolution.
> 
> 1. I was converting one of my folders from 'mbox' format to 'maildir'
> format to try out some "expunge" timings {discussion in a separate
> thread about expunge speed of mbox vs. maildir} and my mail component
> crashed during the conversion.
> 
> 2. I exited Evolution
> 
> 3. I ran killev
> 
> 4. I restarted Evolution...
> 
> and from then on I couldn't view any mail folder at all.  No matter
> what local folder or VFolder I click on, the view goes right back to
> the "My Evolution" view.
> 
> After exiting evolution once again, I did notice that the following
> warning message was being displayed on exit:
> 
>    evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot unregister component --
> OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent
> 
> I am still unable to get evolution working and I have tried several
> different things: exiting & restarting; exiting, killev, & restarting;
> exiting, killev && oaf-slay, restarting; etc...  nothing has worked.
> 
> I've looked through the config.xmldb file and didn't notice anything
> wrong.  (at least to my untrained eye)  
> 
> For the record, the mail folder conversion does appear to have worked. 
> (mbox->maildir) ... I just can't verify that it's in a valid format
> since evolution wont start.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  At this point I'm MIA with my MUA
> outta whack.  Any and all help greatly appreciated!
> 
> thanx,
> 
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> P.S.  output log with WARNING message attached.
> 
> 
> 
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