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Bug 500018 - Local Mail Delivery unable to find system folder
Local Mail Delivery unable to find system folder
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 502721 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-27 16:51 UTC by David Ronis
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
proposed eds patch (1.18 KB, patch)
2007-11-28 15:23 UTC, Milan Crha 		committed Details | Review

Description David Ronis 2007-11-27 16:51:48 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->Edit->Receiving Email
2. Server Type = Local Delivery
3. 


Stack trace:


Other information:
I'm unable to set the spool file.  If I leave the default path (my username).  I get a file/home/username is a directory popup when I try to receive mail.  I tried setting the name of the mail spool file (/var/spool/mail/username) by selecting Other... in the path setup; while I can get to the mail spool directory
all the actual spool files are unselectable.  If I select the directory, i.e., /var/spool/mail I get an error.

Needless to say, this makes evolution unusable.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2007-11-28 15:23:18 UTC 
Created attachment 99779 [details] [review]
proposed eds patch

for evolution-data-server;

I caused this with my patch for bug #352346, where I setup to all old protocols to choose directory, but previous version was choosing files for all of them, so changed here back to file.

I kept choose directories for others, because their names indicate directory usage, not file.
Comment 2 Srinivasa Ragavan 2007-12-01 07:08:52 UTC 
Commit to stable/head.
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2007-12-03 12:27:31 UTC 
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 8260.
Committed to stable. Committed revision 8261.
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2008-06-02 12:05:30 UTC 
*** Bug 502721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***