[Evolution] Unable to receive mail [was conversion failure...]

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

Sorry to trouble you with continued problems...

I have created a new account for myself using KDE, and am slowly
bringing in data from my old home directory.  I backed up my old
evolution data, started evolution in a clean directory, and restored the
backed up data.  Started evolution, went through the initialization
process, giving the type of incoming mail delivery "Local Delivery", the
location of the mailbox ("Configuration Path") from which it should be
fetched as /var/spool/mail/jonrysh, and the location and password for
the smtp server to which outgoing mail is to be sent.  Now outgoing mail
works fine, however...

Incoming mail is never included.  When I click "Send/Receive" a progress
box appears very briefly (maybe about 100 msec), about the time it has
appeared in the past for an empty spool file, no mail in included, and
the mail spool file is unchanged.  There is some odd stuff in an strace
log, which is appended below.  It looks like evolution is attempting to
access the mail spool file as a directory.  Does anyone know what's
going on or how to fix it?

futex(0x3b869164e8, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
futex(0x2388fc0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
access("/var/spool/mail/jonrysh", F_OK) = 0
stat("/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db", 0x7fffe2a698c0) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
open("/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
open("/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
access("/home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/mbox/var/spool/mail/jonrysh", F_OK) = 0
stat("/home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/mbox/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db", 
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10240, ...}) = 0
open("/home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/mbox/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 
0644) = 49
fcntl(49, F_GETFD)                      = 0
fcntl(49, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)          = 0
fstat(49, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10240, ...}) = 0
lseek(49, 0, SEEK_SET)                  = 0
read(49, "SQLite format 3\0\4\0\1\1\0@  \0\0\0+\0\0\0\n"..., 100) = 100
fcntl(49, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741824, len=1}) = 0
fcntl(49, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741826, len=510}) = 0
fcntl(49, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741824, len=1}) = 0
futex(0x3b968995e0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
access("/home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/mbox/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db-journal", F_OK) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(49, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10240, ...}) = 0
access("/home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/mbox/var/spool/mail/jonrysh/folders.db-wal", F_OK) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(49, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10240, ...}) = 0


BTW: I'm also having trouble with **very** small fonts.  There are
instructions on the web about how to fix this by starting the gnome
configuration server, but they are for gnome-2.x, while I'm running
Fedora-15, which includes the very different gnome-3.x

thanks - jon