On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:28 AM, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 09:47 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: >> Upgraded from F14 to F(edora) 15 a couple of days ago. >> >> I am still getting an warning... >> The reported error was "Failed to append to >> mbox:///home/jerry/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Cannot get >> folder 'Sent': folder does not exist. >> Appending to local 'Sent' folder instead.". >> >> When I send mail via my mac or gmail account... >> >> I tried re-selecting the drafts and sent in defaults ( tain't clear how >> to change them...) > > Click on the box containing the folder location - it's a button, from > there you can choose the folder. > >> >> In addition, evo is no longer picking up mail from my local mail >> account. sendmail is running... > > Is the account type "Local Delivery" with the configuration pointing > to /var/spool/mail/<username>? If so, then that works for me - the mail > is copied out of that location into the "On This Computer" folder tree. > > If you need the mail to stay in the spool folder, then you need to > specify the account type as "Standard mbox unix spool file". > > P.
in desperation I rm'ed the mail folder from the evo directory in .local, that did not seem to help. I then deleted the 'local' account and recreated the rascal. That seemed to work. No more error messages when I send an email and evo is picking up the mail from my 'localhost' account. Only thing left is the oversized preferences panel ;( Jerry _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
