Re: [Evolution] Mail lock file for local delivery?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Have you been using 1.3.92, or upgraded to it?  Did you edit your
account?

There was a bug around the end of 1.3.x development (and in 1.4.0) which
breaks local delivery, and the patch missed the 1.4.0 release by a few
hours :(.  See bug 43974 for details and the patch.

Check using:

egrep "mbox:[^;&]*;path" ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml

If that returns a line, then you have the problem.

You can either stick to using the 'standard spool' option, or try this:

quit evo
run these commands:

gconftool-2 shutdown
sed -e 's \(mbox:[^;&]*\);path=[^&]* \1@g' < ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml > tmp.xml
mv tmp.xml ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml

(or just edit the %gconf.xml file manually, and change all occurances of
"mbox:/var/mail/user;path=/var/mail/user" to "mbox:/var/mail/user")

restart evo.

If you re-edit the account, i think it gets reset :-/


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:44, Peter.OShea wrote:
> I've been using 1.3.92 and have had no problems until last week, when it
> stopped retrieving mail.  I'm using "Local delivery" with mail delivered
> to the system file /var/mail/$USER.  I don't know what triggered it, but 
> evo stopped  pulling mail from /var/mail/$USER.  I tried switching account 
> types to "Standard UNIX mbox", and evo then sees what's in /var/mail/$USER, 
> but doesn't move it.
>
> Is there some sort of mail lock file that could be present, keeping evo
> from moving mail from the system mbox file?  I tried deleting the
> contents of .gconf, .gconfd, and moving ~/evolution out of the way, 
> then restarting gnome and evo - no success.
>
> This is evo 1.3.92 compiled from source on a sparc Solaris 8 box with
> gnome 2.3.  Thanks for any help.
>
> Peter
>
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