Re: [Evolution] CORBA error with evo-1.3 and 1.4

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:31, guenther wrote:
> > > SSL certificates. Don't know, if there are more uses though, but that
> > > looks exactly like my SSL certificates.
> >
> > Yes, but why would it be looking in ~/.camel_certs for specific files
> > unless it had reason to expect them there?  I'm speculating that the
> > files existed at one point, but in a different ~.
>
> Yep, probably IMAPS account (or SMTPS), thus loading on start. It has to
> have been there before...
>
> Maybe deleted by accident?

Possibly, but given the number of "I moved ~/evolution between machines,
and something didn't work" reports I get, I'm inclined to think that was
the cause.

> > This looks like yet another case of "something else not stored in
> > ~/evolution that needs to be considered when migrating".
>
> Yep! That should probably be moved... Unless other apps may use it too.

No, camel is a code name for Evolution's email backend.  To be honest,
I'm not sure why this isn't in ~/evolution.

> Another point to consider:
> Even those nasty failures should be answered by Evo. Just disabling the
> account in question and telling the user would be good. (And forgetting,
> this certificate has existed at all, to prevent that needed steps
> described previously.)

Yes, it should handle the disappearance of ~/.camel_certs and/or its
contents more gracefully.

So, who wants to file the bug?

-Mark Gordon