~/evolution/config.xmldb has everything in it, but it's kind of confusing. Every folder has a line in it along these lines:
<entry name="spool__var_spool_mail_jack#INBOX" type="boolean" value="0"/> If I had to guess, I'd say value="1" would change it to maildir. I'm guessing though, so don't try it without a backup. Jack On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 06:36, Randy Church wrote: > I guess I should have been clearer. The Inbox/mbox was successfully > converted to the folders&files system that mh uses. Problem (I believe) > is that Evolution's config did not get updated to use that type and is > still trying to use the mbox that was one file. Anybody know which config > file and lines to start looking at? > > > Randy > > > Calvin Liu said: > > If your mailbox isn't mangled, maybe you can try this: > > - create a fake mailbox with the same name of the old one, change format > > to mbox (the same as the old one), shutdown evolution, replace it with > > the old one. > > > > Calvin > > > > Jack Coates wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:19, Randy Church wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>I'm running Evolution 1.2 and I was converting my Inbox from > >>> local/mail to mh format when it ran out of disc space and I had to > >>> kill evolution. Now when evo goes to access the Inbox it pops up the > >>> error "../Inbox/mbox is not a regular file." If I try and open > >>> properties for the Inbox it never opens. I tried to grep through the > >>> config files (XML) and could not find where the "type" of mailbox is > >>> set. Any one got a suggestion? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>restore the mbox file from backup if you can. > >> > >>nice thing about mbox's is that they're just text files. edit it and > >> you'll probably find it's been mangled at some point, and you can then > >> delete out the mangled bits. > >> > >> -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
