On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:47 -0400, Steve Greenfield wrote:
> I am running an older version on Evolution on my desktop machine,
> version 2.0.2, which runs under Redhat WS Rel4. On the older
> version I setup a spool account called SavedMail. These are the
> specs:
>
> Server Type: Standard Unix mbox spool or directory
>
> Path: /home/<userid>/Mail
>
> This Mail directory contains numerous subdirectories where I store
> saved mail based on topic, person, location, etc.
>
> On my laptop I want to duplicate the same under Evolution 2.8.1
> running on Ubuntu Linux 6.10 - the Edgy Eft. When I go into the
> Edit menu and select Preferences I get the option to add new spool
> account. Seems pretty much identical. I select Add to start the
> definition then select the same Server Type of "Standard Unix mbox
> or directory". Under Configuration I select Path and this is where
> the trouble begins. All I want is to pick the same Path as
> above, /home/<userid>/Mail where I have 500MB of directories and
> files I transferred from my desktop. I type in the path and all it
> wants is for me to open the subdirectories. What is wrong? Do I
> have to select an empty directory and then move my data into it? I
> tried this with no success!
It sounds like you're hitting a known bug [1].
The workaround is to open Configuration Editor and navigate to
/apps/evolution/mail
Then edit the "accounts" key. This is fairly painful because GConf
isn't really suited for XML data, but with the help of a text editor to
cut-and-paste into, you should see where the data needs to be modified.
I believe the path should reside in a "uri" or "relative_uri" XML tag.
Matthew Barnes
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352346
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