Re: [Evolution] strange 'Fetching Mail' error

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 15:09, Bill Wagner wrote:
> Not Zed said:
> > Try removing the mbox.ev-summary file. if that doesn't work, try
> > checking the end of the mbox file.  1.0.2 has some minor mbox problems
> > which can report spurious errors (got to do with missing \n's between
> > messages or at the end of the mailbox).
>
> Hrm, well, neither of those worked for me.  So I figured just converting
> everything into maildir format would solve this problem (shouldn't it?)

yeah it should solve that problem.

> > You can do it in different ways.  You can change an existing single
> > folder to maildir format, goto file->folder->properties when the mailbox
> > is open.
>
> Ok, that seemed to work great!
>
> Ooof, I just tried pulling down my mail and now it's saying:
>
> Error while 'Fetching Mail':
> Cannot append message to maildir folder:
> /home/<me>/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox/tmp/XXXXXX.XXXX.<hostname>: No such
> file or directory
>
> Any ideas on this one?  And I thought I was so close! :(

did you try restart evo too?  (1.0.2 is so old i wouldn't be surprised
if the reconfig had some problems like this).

> > But a better way is to add a new 'account' of type 'maildir' and just
> > point it to your maildir tree.  It assumes various things about the
> > maildir tree (i.e. that subdirs are dirs, and not cyrus format), and in
> > 1.0.8 it doesn't refresh very reliably if something else adds mails (you
> > need to change folders i think), but otherwise it works.  1.2 should be
> > much better with this.
>
> Ah, but this is already presuming that the tree is _already_ in maildir
> format, right?

yeah, its for ppl who use procmail more i guess.

> Thanks for your help,
>
> Bill
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