Message Filters targeting IMAP folders point to local@local

I can confirm, and I am marking it as triaged. I noticed it some time ago on trunk, but never really paid attention until Jared sent an email to evolution-list.

So, at least it affects 2.24.2 onwards.

Jared's explanation is pretty much it: set a filter targeting an IMAP folder (action "move to folder"). Save it. Look at the ./evolution/mail/filters.xml, and the newly-created filter has a target URI pointing to local@local, instead of the correct IMAP account.

You can find the correct IMAP account by running on a terminal:

 gconftool-2 -g /apps/evolution/mail/accounts

Or (if you do not want to browse through all of the output, this:

 gconftool-2 -g /apps/evolution/mail/accounts | awk -F '=' '{print $2 $3}'

This was fixed by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552583 upstream on trunk.

Correction: fix has been committed to both trunk and stable.

I can confirm this is still happening on up-to-date intrepid. Is someone pulling the upstream fix to get it updated in 8.10?

This bug also appears to keep setups from being able to store drafts and sent messages to imap accounts.

This really needs to be backported to intrepid-updates as it is a major usability issue in evolution. I may have to convert back to Hardy otherwise as Thunderbird is so broken for imap I can't even consider moving over to it. :-\

Marking back to triaged since it isn't actually Fix Committed anywhere in Ubuntu, bzr, etc. Just in the upstream codebase.

< slangasek> calc: sounds like an incorrect use of that state to me, yeah

@Klaus: no, we are not cherry-picking this fix. On the other hand, upstream is getting ready to release a new 2.24 base with this fix, and others. This new 2.24 will be packaged for Intrepid.

@Chris: I guess you are talking about the other impacts from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552583, not from this bug.

the bug has been fixed upstream now

upstream rolled a new stable version today which has been uploaded as a candidate update to intrepid now

the new package from intrepid-proposed resolved this problem for me. thanks!

Using the updated packages from intrepid-proposed this problem still occurs with exchange folders (using the exchange plugin). It is exactly as described. Has anyone else tested this using exchange?

I can confirm on 8.10 32-bit w/Exchange.

Evolution 2.24.3

I manually edited the filter.xml as described here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474695

However, how do I fix the drafts and sent folder issue?

the new version is in jaunty now

does anybody has the issue non using exchange?

I have this problem w/exchange, with a current Jaunty system.

I also managed to fix it by editing the filter.xml file as described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474695

So the bug...is still a bug. ;-)

I've just met this bug on a 9.04, but in my case the target folder is in an account whose protocol is "maildir".
I get this line in the filters.xml file:

<folder uri="email://local@local/trash"/>

Changing it to something like this:

<folder uri="email://1243060330.4383.0@benji2/trash"/>

fixes the issue.

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid Ibex 8.10 reached EOL on 30 March 2010.
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Thank you.

I've just realized I made a mistake, Intrepid Ibex 8.10 "will reach" EOL on 30 "APRIL" 2010.

Sorry for this.

Anyway, I think that one month doesn't make any difference now.