Re: [Evolution] Won't delete mail from server

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I recently upgraded to Evolution 1.2 and copied my
> /evolution folder from a previous install (when I
> upgraded from RH8 to RH9).
>
> I had some immediate problems with the program
> complaining about folders not having the right
> permissions for locking so I executed "chmod 644" on
> the "mbox," folder-metadata... and local-... files in
> all of the mailbox folders.  This cured the problem of
> the inability of evolution to put locks on the
> folders, [...]

Wrong solution. You just allowed everyone to read your mail...

Those file rights are set to 600 by default (and reason). I assume the
user and group IDs differ. So the best solution would have been:

[root localhost]# id -u USER  # remember as UID
[root localhost]# id -g USER  # remember as GID
[root localhost]# chown -R UID.GID /home/USER/evolution

That fixes all other files Evo needs, too.


> but now even though under
> > Tools>settings>receiving... when the box "Leave mail
> on Server" is UNCHECKED (meaning to delete the mail on
> the server," the program leaves it on the server and
> downloads it each time.

Hmm, maybe related? Don't think so, seems to be unrelated.

...guenther


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