GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679017
Broken spool mbox file accounts
Last modified: 2012-08-22 14:00:15 UTC
After upgrading from 3.2 to 3.4 my spool mbox file account no longer displays new or old mail. I'm using this account to view mails from my local laptop cron daemon so I need it to be working. pabs@chianamo ~ $ grep From\ /var/mail/pabs From pabs@chianamo.mine.nu Sat Jan 01 00:00:14 2011 From pabs@chianamo.mine.nu Thu Sep 01 00:00:05 2011 From pabs@chianamo.mine.nu Sun Dec 11 00:00:12 2011 From pabs@chianamo Thu Jun 28 01:00:06 2012 From pabs@chianamo Thu Jun 28 01:00:08 2012 From daemon@chianamo Thu Jun 28 02:22:07 2012 From root@chianamo Thu Jun 28 07:49:26 2012 From root@chianamo Thu Jun 28 08:49:43 2012 pabs@chianamo ~ $ evolution ** (evolution:8761): CRITICAL **: categories_icon_theme_hack: assertion `filename != NULL && *filename != '\0'' failed (evolution:8761): camel-local-provider-WARNING **: spool summary - not loading anything
Thanks for a bug report. In Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts, is the Type column for that account spool or spooldir?
Never mind, I managed to reproduce this too. Also reading your report more carefully I guess this is a spool mbox file, rather than directory.
Created attachment 219138 [details] [review] eds patch for evolution-data-server; Due to disabled summary loading the account didn't read previously saved messages in it and hid them from the user. How basically the same code could work in 3.2.3 I'm not sure at all, but this change seems to be correct anyway.
Created commit 7366ecd in eds master (3.5.5+) Created commit 6aa237c in eds gnome-3-4 (3.4.4+)
This is not mentioned in the NEWS file of 3.4.4. commit b097a7d4dee51f18fe32722a098076827ec96c69 Author: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 19:40:51 2012 -0400 NEWS update for 3.4.4 release. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6d34b93..d9954f4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,32 @@ +Evolution 3.4.4 2012-08-13 +-------------------------- + +* At some point since Evolution 3.0, detection of when the local mail + storage format needs to be converted from mbox (as used in 2.x) to + Maildir (as used in 3.x) broke. This release fixes the detection. + +Bug Fixes: + Bug 559815 - Empty Reminders editor when opened second time + (Milan Crha) + Bug 617557 - Can close composer while message is sending (Milan Crha) + Bug 653529 - Alarm Notification window events list is too small + (Milan Crha) + Bug 677993 - Remember screen used in previous session (Milan Crha) + Bug 678292 - Due Date does not display in follow-up flag dialogue box + (Milan Crha) + Bug 678304 - Save Draft prevents Evolution's quit (Milan Crha) + Bug 678783 - Crash under e_attachment_set_file_info() (Milan Crha) + Bug 680682 - Segfault after label attempted deletion (Milan Crha) + +Other Changes: + * Trust attachments from ~/.kde and ~/.kde4. (Matthew Barnes) + * Run mbox-to-Maildir conversion before loading modules. + (Matthew Barnes) + +Translations: + Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli (te) Was it just forgotten? Can it be added, please?
As far as I can tell the fix is part of 3.4.4, it's only missing from the NEWS log for some reason.
In the Debian BTS this issue was assigned number 679347 [1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679347