Re: Evolution configure problem

[Amondo Roquentin <amondo globalstatic net>]

Chris wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 02:59:21 you wrote:
> 
>>   <pre wrap="">I borked up my imap setup in evolution, I enter the wrong
>> user and couldn't log in, now I can't access the preferences. When I click
>> on preferences evolution locks up. Anyway I can correct this? I removed and
>> installed evolution and even renamed the .evolution folder. A new one was
>> created however I still can't make changes to my preferences since it locks
>> up. Wanted to try Gnome since KDE4 seems to be much slower than it used to
>> be and I'd heard that Gnome is faster.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice
>> Chris
>>
> 
>> You may need to kill those before you clean your evolution install.<br>
>> <br>
>> ps -ef | grep evol</font>
>> </body>
>> </html>
> That did the trick for that however I have some other issues. For one the 
> bottom/top panels have gone missing and without them the only apps that I can 
> run are those on the desktop. Running In Kmail I have an imap account setup. 
> It's setup on evolution however I can't add any folders under the account. 
> Shouldn't I be able to import all the folders in have in ~/Maildir into this 
> account? At least gpg is working. 
> 
> Being a Gnome newbie is getting to be frustrating already
> 
> Chris
> 

Sorry about the HTML. I think I fixed that now.

1. Missing panels. You didn't provide enough information to go on,
because what you describe does not seem to me to be a common problem.
Please keep track of what you're doing, or at least be careful with what
you do. What commands did you run? How do you launch your gnome session?
When did you run it the first time? What files did you delete or modify
manually?

Panel settings are stored in gconf. In the worst case you can probably
kill your gconfd and then delete your (~/.gconf). Then you should get
fresh panels.

2. Creating IMAP folder on remote server. I don't know whether Evolution
can create folders in remote IMAP servers, and what version this was
implemented in. You should check that info. I seem to remember this is a
non-trivial feature, and furthermore not all IMAP servers support this
functionality. I usually create new folder on the IMAP server itself
using a special interface.

3. Adding emails to folders. I think it is trivial to drag and drop
emails from folders within Evolution. If you are doing filesystem-level
copying, then this works with local mailboxes. I'm not sure you can copy
files into Evol's internal folders (~/.evolution) for IMAP mail.  For
local folders, I usually create a new folder within Evolution, then quit
evolution and copy over the blank mailbox file with the file I want to
import.

Hope this helps.