Re: [Evolution] spool directory always none

[luigi <laporta enea it>]

Hi all,

I install the Centos evolution package:
evolution-3.12.11-22.el7.x86_64 and
evolution-data-server-3.12.11-37.el7.x86_64 

and now evolution works fine !

Thanks to all

Luigi

Il giorno ven, 30/12/2016 alle 15.18 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan ha
scritto:
> On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:23 +0100, luigi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > before to reinstall evolution , I delete $HOME/.local/share/evolution
> > and $HOME/.config/.evolution.
>
> If you're doing that then reinstalling the Evolution packages really is
> a waste of time. Absolutely nothing will change.
>
> > The version 3.12.11 of evolution is the last version of Scientific Linux
> > 7.2.
> > I use either: 
> > 1)POP account with the problem that I cannot leave messages on the mail
> > server 
>
> What exactly happens when you try this? Please give the actual error
> messages you see. Are you sure your email provider allows Leave On
> Server (e.g. does it work with other mail clients such as Thunderbird?)
>
> (You may want to consider switching to IMAP if your provider supports
> it. It's better in every way.)
>
> > 2)local account with the problem that I can not set the spool file.
>
> Again, what are you doing and what error messages do you get?
>
> > I would understand if my Scientific Linux 7.2 is misconfigured and I
> > must reinstall it
>
> Don't assume that everything is fixable by reinstalling. We're not
> talking about Windows here.
>
> OTOH your system *is* out of date. Scientific Linux was essentially
> RHEL with some extra packages, but is no longer supported except for
> security updates. That means you are heading for trouble sooner or
> later because at some point the software you use will no longer be
> updated (like Evolution). I would recommend taking a look at CentOS and
> adding the specific additional packages you need.
>
> poc
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