Re: Fw: [Evolution] Irregularities in mail folder format conversion

[Thomas Emmel <emmel mechanik tu-darmstadt de>]

I have seen the same problem and a mail-crash on top!
Just submitted a bug-report about that, since the conversion is NOT
very stable and an end-user is maybe in some way over-stressed by
the fact that he/she have to delete all its mbox.ibex files
to get evolution to run again.
I think one and maybe the one problem is handling of those ibex-files
after conversion and that confuses evo if it find some corrupted files.
Maybe evo should go to some protected state in conversion...

Thomas

On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:12, Ibukun Okitika wrote:
> Since nobody has seconded this issue, I thought I'd submit it again.
> Somebody have any idea?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ibukun Okitika" <ibukun computer org>
> To: "Evolution Mailing List" <evolution ximian com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 10:57 PM
> Subject: [Evolution] Irregularities in mail folder format conversion
>
>
> > I noticed this bug which I was able to reproduce over and over again:
> >
> > 1. Convert a folder, any folder, from the default mbox format to maildir.
> > 2. Switch to another folder (e.g. Inbox). Immediately there is an error
> > message:
> > Error while 'Synchronizing 'mbox'':
> > Cannot create folder lock on
> > /home/ibukun/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/foldername//mbox: Is a
> > directory
> >
> > 3. Try to copy a message to the newly created folder. A similar error
> > appears (cannot create folder lock: is a directory).
> >
> > Quite evidently evolution seems to have forgotten that the folder has
> > been converted to maildir and is still trying to read it as mbox. This
> > problem can only be solved by restarting evolution.
> >
> > Ibukun
> >
> >
> >
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