setting maildir directory in evolution

[Karl Auer]

Hullo there.

Bad form to reply to my own message I know, but I had a brainwave and
appear to have solved my problem:

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:33 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> This question has been posed via Launchpad, with no answer forthcoming
> as yet. I have struck a bug with evolution as installed in feisty
> (evolution version 2.10.1), which is that there is no way to select the
> desired maildir-format directory. The dialogue forces you to select a
> file, not a directory. I have many, many megabytes of mail in maildir
> format that I want to access via evolution :-(
> 
> So I selected a file instead of a directory, then went and hand-edited
> the file in which evolution appears to store this data, namely:
> 
>    ~/.gconfd/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.conf
> 
> but it magically gets reset back to whatever it was before. Either I
> don't know where the "real" valueis stored, or something else is going
> on.
> 
> So: Does anyone else out there use Evolution 2.10.1 and maildir-format
> directories? If so, how did you set your maildir?

The file I edited was of course ~/.gconf/.../%gconf.xml. It occurred to
me that maybe evolution loads it at startup, then writes it when it
terminates, ignoring it in the meantime, except of course when the
config is changed via evolution itself.

So I took my system into single-user mode, edited the file to set my
desired maildir-format directory, and brought it back up into X. Lo and
behold, the maildir directory is now set.

So that's the workaround. There are probably simpler ways to make sure
no part of evolution is running, but going into single-user mode is sort
of guaranteed...

Regards, K.

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