Evolution error

les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat Feb 18 18:51:09 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 09:59 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 02:55 -0800, les wrote:
> > It appears the automatic importation of the older evolution stuff still
> > has a bug or two.  I wrote and sent the solved message, and it
> > apparently went out, but I received the following error message:
> > 
> > Your message was sent, but an error occurred during post-processing.
> > 
> > The reported error was "Failed to append to
> > mbox:///home/lesh/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder
> > URI 'mbox:///home/lesh/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent'
> > Appending to local 'Sent' folder instead.".
> 
> This has a documented workaround:
>   Click on Edit -> Preferences
> Then, for each mail account that you have (I have 3), click on it, and
> select:
>   Edit -> Defaults tab
> and change the Sent Messages Folder to the Sent folder instead of the
> incorrect #Sent folder.
> 
> I do not know why a fix has not been pushed out for this, 6 months after
> the bug showed up.  It affects a huge number of people.
> 

Thanks, John,
	I was quite tired when I discovered the error and didn't google it.  I
appologize for not finding the issue, and appreciate your help.

Regards,
Les H



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