Re: [Evolution] Trouble setting up 2.12 to work with local delivery

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

        Hello,
Please file a bug about issue with directory, and write there what is
the protocol for the account before any change, maybe a migration code
didn't start properly for you. It's viewable in Edit->Preferences, Mail
Accounts.

As a workaround, try other type of your receiving server type,
go to Edit->Preferences, Mail accounts, edit >your account<, go to tab
"Receiving options" and change "Server type" to "Standard Unix mbox
spool file", this change will allow you to point not on a directory, but
on a file, so choose it instead of a directory.
        Hope that helps,
        Milan Crha


On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 17:09 -0400, Peter Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm using Evo 2.12 on Ubunty Gutsy beta. Instead of drawing in my email
> directly into Evo using pop3 settings, I've tried to set Evo up to use
> local delivery. When I try to configure the path, the dialog allows me
> to get as far as /var/spool/mail. But it doesn't recognize the mbox file
> there with my user name (the only one in the folder). It's shaded out.
> I've tried changing the permissions on the file, and on the string of
> folders leading to it. But to no avail. I can see that
> fetchmail/procmail is tacking new mail onto the mbox file. But when I
> try to pull that email into Evolution, I get an error message that
> reads:
>
> "Could not open mail file /var/spool/mail: Is a directory"
>
> Well, I know it's a directory. I recall that when set to "local
> delivery," 2.10 recognized the users file inside that directory without
> blinking, as it were. The only other way I can get this to work is if I
> use the settings that store my local email in a new series of folders
> in  /var/spool/mail. And I don't want to do that if I can avoid it...
>
> It there a workaround for this, other than going back to using pop3
> settings? Or is there some blatantly obvious setting that I've
> overlooked?
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete