[gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[Michael Sullivan]

I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from
the list.  I'm sending it again...

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:40:47 -0600

Is there a way to manually register a POP mail account with Evolution?
The college that my wife and I attend gives each of its students their
own email account to be accessed either through their webmail site or
through an external mail client.  Their webmail service was written for
IE, so it's not much good to us, and whenever I try to enter a new
account in Evolution-2.2, it crashes when I try to select the POP
protocol from the protocol combo box for incoming mail (second page of
the Email Account Registry wizard (at least that's what I call it.)  We
were told today that all correspondence from the school would be sent
out to our student email accounts.  As you can see, it's somewhat
important for me to have this account available in Evolution, where the
rest of my mail stuff is set up.  Is there a file somewhere that I can
manually alter to get the information for the account in there?

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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[James Ausmus]

On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from
> the list.  I'm sending it again...
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>
> To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
> Subject: OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:40:47 -0600
>
> Is there a way to manually register a POP mail account with Evolution?

It doesn't appear to be easily done at all - there appear to be many
files that would have to be edited, all in some really messy-looking
XML, with alot of values that might not be obvious. However, if you
want to try and find everything that is touched by adding a new
account, it appears that all the files live under
~/.gconf/apps/evolution (and sub-dirs) - but there might be additional
locations that I'm not aware of. Sorry. :)

> The college that my wife and I attend gives each of its students their
> own email account to be accessed either through their webmail site or
> through an external mail client.  Their webmail service was written for
> IE, so it's not much good to us, and whenever I try to enter a new
> account in Evolution-2.2, it crashes when I try to select the POP
> protocol from the protocol combo box for incoming mail (second page of
> the Email Account Registry wizard (at least that's what I call it.)  We

Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency
issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried
a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option
would be to emerge the ~x86 evolution (2.4.2.1) - it has been quite a
bit more stable for me than previous versions of evolution.


-James

> were told today that all correspondence from the school would be sent
> out to our student email accounts.  As you can see, it's somewhat
> important for me to have this account available in Evolution, where the
> rest of my mail stuff is set up.  Is there a file somewhere that I can
> manually alter to get the information for the account in there?
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[Richard Fish]

On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from
> the list.  I'm sending it again...

I got both...

Not really answering the question you asked, but it should be pretty
trivial to setup fetchmail to grab mail from the remote server and
deliver it to the local mailbox.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[Michael Sullivan]

<snip
> Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency
> issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried
> a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option
> would be to emerge the ~x86 evolution (2.4.2.1) - it has been quite a
> bit more stable for me than previous versions of evolution.
</snip>

I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me.
Observe:

camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution'
mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86
camille evolution # emerge -p =evolution-2.4.2.1
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords:
mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask:
mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=evolution-2.4.2.1" have been
masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

What's the deal here?

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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[James Ausmus]

On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> <snip
> > Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency
> > issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried
> > a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option
> > would be to emerge the ~x86 evolution (2.4.2.1) - it has been quite a
> > bit more stable for me than previous versions of evolution.
> </snip>
>
> I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me.
> Observe:
>
> camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution'
> mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86


This should be:

=mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86

And the same for any of the dependencies that are currently marked ~x86

-James


> camille evolution # emerge -p =evolution-2.4.2.1
> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords:
> mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1
> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask:
> mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=evolution-2.4.2.1" have been
> masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
> or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>
> What's the deal here?
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[Iain Buchanan]

I saw your post on the evolution-list as well.  I think your best bet
would be to try and get evolution working without the crash.

Do you have a trace?  Evolution used to crash for me all the time, until
I looked at the trace and saw a library needed recompiling.  Now its
rock-solid.

Feel free to post your trace for inspection :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:40:13PM -0800, Penguin Lover James Ausmus squawked:
> >
> > I'm trying to emerge that version of evolution, but it won't let me.
> > Observe:
> >
> > camille evolution # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep 'evolution'
> > mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86
> 
> 
> This should be:
> 
> =mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1 ~x86
> 
> And the same for any of the dependencies that are currently marked ~x86
> 

or, even

mail-client/evolution ~x86

W
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