Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Re: local mail spool still unaccessible with evo 3.4.4.-1]

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > > > I was waiting for the latest bugfix release to see if the local mailbox
> > > > spool problem was solved. Unfortunately it was not :( Local mails are
> > > > delivered to /var/mail/<username> and these are the settings used for
> > > > the local mail account in evo. However, evo looks for this mailbox file
> > > > at  ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<some_strange_directory_name>
> > > > containing the following files: INBOX.ibex.index.data, INBOX.ibex.index,
> > > > INBOX.cmeta, folders.db
> >
> > They are the normal indexing and config files for mail accounts - they
> > don't contain any emails.
>
> It seem like evo is looking for the mails in that directory??

I can't see anywhere where you say how you know it's looking in that
directory?

> > It really sounds as though there is something up with your configuration
> > somewhere. Can I suggest that you create another Unix user with a clean
> > configuration and try the same thing. 

Did you do this?

>  If it works, then you should
> > delete the configuration from within Evolution, then close Evo and check
> > in gconf (or is it dconf for 3.4) that everything has gone, then delete
> > the corresponding directory in .local/share/evolution/mail. You should
> > then have a clean configuration and you can recreate the account with
> > Evolution.
>
> I did not find any mail accounts when finally discovering evolution
> under org/gnome/evolution. Seems like the version there is 3.4.0 while
> 3.4.4 is installed. Under org/gnome/evolution/mail I found a lot of
> settings, but nowhere any info about my pop and imap accounts. However,
> under default account there was a _very_ old account name no longer in
> use. It does not seem to be editable in dconf?? How to change that if
> needed?

You change it from within Evolution.

It looks like the account information is in gconf - the key
is /apps/evolution/mail/accounts - that is populated with XML blobs
describing each account.  Do 

    gconftool-2 -g /apps/evolution/mail/accounts

to see it. These chunks of XML are sometimes difficult to sort out, but
you are looking for a line that starts "<account name="nameofaccount"".
In that line there should be a section looks like
<url>spool:/var/mail/username</url> - do you see that?

P.