Re: [Evolution] One possible fix for evolution-mail not working

[Gil Hauer <gilh sympatico ca>]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the help but, alas, it did not help :(

It's nice to be getting ideas, though, however long the shot is ...

Gil

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 13:57, Jeff Paquette wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2001, Gil Hauer wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Thanks for the tip; I checked the directory and it is, in fact, 755. Oh
> > well, I'll keep banging on this puppy -- eventually it will be beaten
> > into submission :)
> >
> > Gil
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 03:32, Dave Allen wrote:
> > > I've seen posts over the last several weeks complaining that for
> > >
> > > What happened to me was that the evolution RPM file (for RedHat 7.2
> > > anyway - not sure about other distros) isn't explicitly setting
> > > permissions on /usr/lib/evolution/camel-providers/1.0, so this
> > > directory was being created as drwx------ on my system.  Changing the
> > > permissions on this directory to drwxr-xr-x (and the usual killev ;
> > > oaf-slay bit) fixed it for me.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps somebody out there.
>
>
> I sovled my evolution-mailer crashes by 
> # mv evolution old-evolution
> # evolution
>
> I had to reconfigure my three email acocunts, but evo is now running and
> fetching mail without crashing. I closed the program, did a killev to be
> safe, and copied my mail folders to the new evolution directory, restart
> evo and there was my old mail, nice and accessible.
>
> The only thing I still have to do is move my filters over. I'll have to
> figure that out tonight.
>
> --
> Jeff Paquette
> paquette mediaone net