Re: [Evolution] (no subject)

[Calvin Liu <calvin liu sun com>]

If your mailbox isn't mangled, maybe you can try this:
- create a fake mailbox with the same name of the old one, change format
to mbox (the same as the old one), shutdown evolution, replace it with the
old one.

Calvin

Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:19, Randy Church wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running Evolution 1.2 and I was converting my Inbox from local/mail to
> > mh format when it ran out of disc space and I had to kill evolution.  Now
> > when evo goes to access the Inbox it pops up the error "../Inbox/mbox is
> > not a regular file."  If I try and open properties for the Inbox it never
> > opens.  I tried to grep through the config files (XML) and could not find
> > where the "type" of mailbox is set.  Any one got a suggestion?
> >   
>
> restore the mbox file from backup if you can.
>
> nice thing about mbox's is that they're just text files. edit it and
> you'll probably find it's been mangled at some point, and you can then
> delete out the mangled bits.