[Evolution] Bug#754627: evolution: Maildir removing renders user data unusable

Rosario Maddox bugs at rcdrun.com
Wed Dec 30 21:31:05 UTC 2015


Source: evolution
Followup-For: Bug #754627

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
 
Creating account in Evolution, specifying the local Maildir.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

Just created new account in Evolution, specified the Maildir folder. 

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Evolution started renaming files, and totally destroyed the Maildir
folder. There were maybe 12000 other Maildir folders inside. I can
rename them back, however, it is now total mess. I have to make a script
to rename these files properly back or use renamer batch.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

EVOLUTION SHOULD SIMPLY READ MAILDIR FOLDERS. Not rename and move so
many folders without user's consent. THIS PACKAGE SHALL BE REMOVED
TOTALLY FROM DEBIAN. I have never seen something weird like this.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)



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