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

[Svante Signell <srs kth se>]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:05 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > 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?

As I wrote above, that directory is the latest updated under .local:
 ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/<some_strange_directory_name>
containing the above mentioned files. Among the files the folders.db
(but as you say, not real mbox files).

> > > 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?

No I did not, I don't want to clutter my computer with another user
(will do that if really necessary).

> >  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.

OK, and it looks like dconf does not find anything useful.

> 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?

Yes I see it now: <url>spool:///var/mail/"username"</url>
It seem to be correct, why does not evo find it?