[Evolution] Bug#615822: Bug#615822: Evolution wipe $HOME/.evolution/mail on upgrade

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

retitle 615822 local maildir accounts configuration with path in .evolution not updated after mail migration
thanks

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 20:55 +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 18:32 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : 
> > > Bug can be closed, or severity downgraded as it misses something to
> > > update configuration for impacted accounts.
> > I've downgraded but it still puzzles me. Iirc you use an exchange/mapi
> > account so it might be related. Does the same happen on IMAP accounts
> > (if you have some)? 
> 
> IMAP accounts were not impacted and my Exchange account was not impacted
> either. I guess this is because their storing cache here or there is not
> account configuration related.
> 
> But, I have a local maildir account I use for local email storage, which
> implies a user configuration entry to specify where you want to store
> your email, $HOME/.evolution/local/mail/myaccount in my case. When
> upgrading, content was moved to
> HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/myaccount but configuration was still
> pointing to $HOME/.evolution/local/mail/myaccount.
> 
Oh, thanks, retitling then. I don't have local mail accounts so I can't
easily reproduce but I trust you on that.

In fact, I'm not sure the bug is that the config wasn't updated, but
more that the mail folder was moved altogether, since it's not an
evolution local cache but rather a “remote” folder (it doesn't “belong”
to evolution). All in all, though, I don't think it's a good idea to put
that mail folder in the local evolution config folder since evolution
has no reason to consider it.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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