Re: [Evolution] Maildir account broken by update?

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2018-07-11 at 22:45 +0200, fabien wrote:
> I'm running Evolution 3.12.9 in Debian (Jessie) to display emails from
> an IMAP, POP and MailDir accounts. This is the last version in Jessie,
> namely 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1. 
> Earlier today a bunch of packages got updated (without any problem,
> apparently). 
>
> However, when starting Evolution afterwards, the emails related to the
> MailDir account could no longer be displayed. 
>
> In my preferences/Account/Receiving email page, the directory is now set
> to (None) instead of my MailDir folder, and setting it back doesn't
> help : opening the page again shows it's back to (None). 

According to the user documentation, account data is stored under
~/.config/evolution/sources/
Are that folder (plus your MailDir folder itself) writable?

> Making Evolution re-create a new folders.db didn't help.
>
> Also, trying to create a new MailDir account yields the same problem
> than the initial MailDir account. It seems impossible to set the
> Directory to something else than (None)...
>
> Any idea?

Cheers,
andre
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