Re: [Evolution] Conversion failure, Datastructure mess, Crashes

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:58 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have just upgraded from Fedora-13 to Fedora-15, which uses a maildir
> format rather than the mbox format previously used.

Yet again: telling people the version of the OS is not helpful. You need
to mention the version of Evolution. Since I also use Fedora, I happen
to know that it's 3.0.x, but not everyone on the list will know that.

> Evolution crashed
> in the conversion process, leaving me in a mixed state with a few of the
> maildir folders, which are (I think) in 
>     ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur
> and most of the remaining data structure in mbox form in various files in
>     ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local_mbox

Did it say anything when it crashed? Is there anything
in /var/log/messages? Did abrt intervene (since this is Fedora)?

> Since I've been using evolution about 4 days since the upgrade, some of
> my messages are in one format, and some in the other, and some in both. 
>
> Also, Evolution now crashes whenever it has to file a message I have
> sent in a folder other than "Sent", probably because there is no folder
> available of the right kind.

A bug in the version of Evo 3 distributed with Fedora 15 (now corrected
in updates) means you have to explicitly select your Sent, Drafts etc.
folders the first time. However the symptom is not a crash but an error
message. Which is it?

You can import mbox files into Evo, so that might be a way of unifying
your mailboxes.

poc