Re: [Evolution] 2.8.1 problem

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:47 -0400, Steve Greenfield wrote:
> I am running an older version on Evolution on my desktop machine,
> version 2.0.2, which runs under Redhat WS Rel4.  On the older
> version I setup a spool account called SavedMail.  These are the
> specs:
>
>      Server Type:     Standard Unix mbox spool or directory
>
>      Path:            /home/<userid>/Mail
>
> This Mail directory contains numerous subdirectories where I store
> saved mail based on topic, person, location, etc.
>
> On my laptop I want to duplicate the same under Evolution 2.8.1
> running on Ubuntu Linux 6.10 - the Edgy Eft.  When I go into the
> Edit menu and select Preferences I get the option to add new spool
> account.  Seems pretty much identical.  I select Add to start the
> definition then select the same Server Type of "Standard Unix mbox
> or directory".  Under Configuration I select Path and this is where
> the trouble begins.  All I want is to pick the same Path as
> above, /home/<userid>/Mail where I have 500MB of directories and
> files I transferred from my desktop.  I type in the path and all it
> wants is for me to open the subdirectories.  What is wrong?  Do I
> have to select an empty directory and then move my data into it?  I
> tried this with no success!


It sounds like you're hitting a known bug [1].

The workaround is to open Configuration Editor and navigate to

        /apps/evolution/mail

Then edit the "accounts" key.  This is fairly painful because GConf
isn't really suited for XML data, but with the help of a text editor to
cut-and-paste into, you should see where the data needs to be modified.
I believe the path should reside in a "uri" or "relative_uri" XML tag.

Matthew Barnes

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352346