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

[Svante Signell <srs kth se>]

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 10:39 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > 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).
>
> !! So you are basing your assertion that Evolution is looking in the
> wrong place for the mail on the fact that a directory under .local
> happens to be updated at the same time - the directory that contains all
> the indexing for the account in question - indexing that *will* be
> updated when the account is accessed??

I'm just saying the when I created the new mbox file account after
removing the old, this directory was created, containing these files.
The pop account I have is also having a strange name, but that directory
contains: folders.db, uid-cache and a subdirectory cache containing the
actual mail files (in maildir format?).

> Have you actually looked to see if the actual spool file is accessed at
> all?  

How to know if evo tries to accesses it? logcheck is reporting there so
this spool file is updated often.

> Note though, the file will NOT be updated because you haven't
> changed anything in it.

Evo is reporting several thousands of mails available  but cannot find
the mails themselves.

> Have you even tried running Evolution from the command line to see if
> there are any errors reported?  Have you tried doing it with debugging
> turned on?

> From command line yes. That is where the message below comes from:
(evolution:8019): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Failed to refresh folders:
Error storing 'mailbox: /<username>/INBOX (spool)': Summary and folder
mismatch, even after a sync

I have also been running evo with debugging before, but forgot it by
now. (It's not the first time there are problems with evo) How to enable
debugging info?

> > > > > 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).
>
> So rather than try the debugging steps to attempt to isolate your
> problem you would prefer to keep your filesystem looking pretty?  You do
> realise that you can delete the account (and all its files) afterwards?

In will try next time I have access to that box again, yes.

> > > > 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.
>
> Yes, because it uses gconf - everything will be switched to dconf soon.

3.6? This one will definitely not be part of Debian/Wheezy.

> > > 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?
>
> Does it really have three slashes in the URL?  Does it have three
> slashes in the configuration within Evolution?  Because it doesn't on my
> system.  Perhaps that is confusing things.

Yes, there are three slashes. The pop and imap accounts has two! Can I
edit that in some easy way, using gconftool-2? Or can I edit the 
%gconf.xml file directly?