[Evolution] Bug#383638: evolution: Complains without reason about (Maildir) directories

[Øystein Gisnås]

2006/8/18, Eddy Petrisor <epetrisor at bitdefender.com>:
> Subject: evolution: Complains without reason about (Maildir) directories not being absolute paths
> Package: evolution
> Version: 2.6.2-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> I have switched from a KDE based environment to a GNOME based one and
> wanted to take my mail with myself. I copied the mails from the other
> machine and tried to read the Maildir created by Kmail.
>
> When trying to create a new folder in the old Maildir structure it
> complains that the path is not absolte. I even tried to create that
> directory in a fresh Maildir in /tmp/mail, which also failed because of
> the same supposed error. The /tmp directory is on the root filesystem
> (could it be because the filesystem is on LVM?).
>
> Attached is a screenshot of the error I got.

I tried this, and I'm not able to reproduce the problem. Do you have a
chance to try this on a different partition with a new evolution, or
do some other experiments to narrow in the causes for this bug?

Cheers,
Øystein