Description of problem: Evolution cannot create new folders in a MH Mail tree Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5 How reproducible: My evolution environment has been with me for a while. It began with an import of an MH tree of legacy mail that I've had forever. This tree is configured as a secondary mail account which is not my default. I like it's structure, I've continued to use its folders through FC3 and FC4. Since installing FC5 I've been unable to add new subfolders. For example I have a top-level folder called 'ccb'. Attempting to add a folder 'foo' below 'ccb' pops a dialog that says: Store root /bcl/cbox/home/ccb/Mail/ is not an absolute path The controlling terminal also reports: DEBUG: ccb/foo (mh:///bcl/cbox/home/ccb/Mail#ccb/foo) (evolution-2.6:5638): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Error occurred while existing dialogue active: Store root /bcl/cbox/home/ccb/Mail/ is not an absolute path OK. It's unpleasant. So I pop the Preferences, select Mail Accounts, select this particular account and press Edit to bring up the Account Editor. I hit the Receiving Email tab and then Browse for a configuration path. The file picker dialog does not allow the selection of a directory. I select my Mail directory and the only buttons available are Cancel and Open. I hit Open expecting that the selected directory will be returned to the application is the desired Configuration Path:. Nope. The file picker dialog opens the Mail directory and shows me its contents. The file picker will not allow the selection of any directory at all... If I select a regular file only then does it report the file back to the Receiving Email dialog. This is of course wrong. It appears from a quick look that this is not the only thing wrong with Evolution. Should it be deprecated? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Described above 2. 3. Actual results: Described above. Expected results: I expect to be able to use existing MH folder trees with Evolution I expect to be able to select directories with the Gnome file picker when the dialog that popped the file picker needs a directory. Additional info:
Apologies for taking so long to respond. Closing as UPSTREAM since there's an equivalent upstream bug report. I will continue to track the problem there. Please refer to [1] for further updates. Note that this is somewhat fixed in Rawhide. I replaced the file chooser button with a director chooser button in the Mail Accounts preferences. Unfortunately I can't apply this patch to stable Fedora Core releases because it breaks the ability to choose a single mbox file. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352346