Re: [Evolution] Signatures are not saved

["Paulo Cesar G. Costa" <paulo costafamily org>]

Milan,

Problem solved! Thanks!

The issue was not the use of symlinks, but the fact that the drive they 

were pointing to was formatted as NTSF. My entry in /etc/fstab was:

LABEL=Mail /mnt/Mail ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Which works well in other places I use NTFS partitions in Linux. However,

the NTFS formatting seems to mess with the attributes and/or the 

permissions. I moved all mail to an ext4 partition, redirected the 

symbolic links and now the signatures work as expected.

All the best,

Paulo

On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:39 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:

On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 09:21 -0500, Paulo Cesar G. Costa wrote:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   38 Jan 20 21:20 evolution -> /mnt....

	Hi,

having the file owned by root:root, instead of pc:pc, looks a bit

suspicious, despite the "everyone can do everything" attributes.

Thus, given that:

1) I cannot find anything that would indicate an issue in the file

system

2) The signature files are being properly saved by evolution in the

correct folder 

and the fact that the error messages point to a NULL symlink, my best

guess is that something internal to Evolution may be causing it to

not follow the symlink.

Okay, that you symlink the files into a mounted partition is kind of

important detail, because it's not the standard way of running

Evolution.

It seems that the code thinks that your signature is a script. That's

recognized by file attributes. Does the file in /mnt/.... have the

executable attribute set? What is the partition type of the /mnt/Mail?

Some can "garbage" file attributes used by Linux systems.

	Bye,

	Milan

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