Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.0.3 Sent Folder Issues

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:50 -0700, Patrick Topping wrote:
> I recently upgraded from Evolution 2.x to 3.0.3 and ever since the
> upgrade my Sent folder does not wok 99.99% of the time.  It shows
> errors like the following for every message in the folder:
>
>         Unable to retrieve message
>         Cannot get message 2 from
>         folder /home/ptopping/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent:
>         No such file or directory
>
> I have checked the directory that Evolution is complaining about and
> the hidden directory is there and contains the following 3
> directories:
>
>         ptopping jackass
>         [/home/ptopping]$ cd .local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent
>         ptopping jackass
>         [/home/ptopping/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent]$ ls
>         -l
>         total 12
>         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 12:08 cur
>         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 11:54 new
>         drwx------ 2 ptopping ptopping 4096 Sep 15 12:08 tmp

Does .local/share/evolution/mail/local/Sent (without a dot in front of
"Sent") also exist (ls -l)?

Wild guess: .Sent is an empty leftover and you want to use Sent instead,
and have to adjust your default folder settings under Edit â Preferences
â Mail Accounts â Edit â Defaults â Folder.

andre
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