Evolutions E-mail problems, not saving my settings

Spyder~1 · 07-25-2003, 10:46 AM

I am using Red Hat 8.0 and Ximian evolution 1.0.8, I am having a really strange problem. Every time I start my e-mail program it prompts me to enter my account details, pop server, smtp server and so on. Once I have done that it will send a recive messages and show me the messages I have picked up from previous sessions. How do I tell Evolution to save my settings, this is driving me nuts.
Thanks
David

tcaptain · 07-25-2003, 10:53 AM

well off-hand I'd say check the permissions in your .evolution directory in your home directory. It could be a permissions problem on the settings file or something.

Spyder~1 · 07-25-2003, 11:04 AM

Ok, I look in my home dir and I don't see an evolution folder in fact I don't see any files or directories in my /home/david folder. I am a bit of a linux newbie could it be because I log on as root and then from a Shell use the su to switch to my user account "David"

tcaptain · 07-25-2003, 11:09 AM

ok...

try:

ls -al | grep evolution

and see what that gives you.

Spyder~1 · 07-25-2003, 11:48 AM

Thanks for the tips, because I kept logging on to my machine as root (yes I know that's not a good idea) when I opened evolution it wouldn't save the settings. As soon as I logged into my machine as David and opened my e-mail I saw that an evolution folder was created under the home directory.
Thanks goes to tcaptain

Strike · 07-25-2003, 11:55 AM

Just a sidebar, Evolution is up to 1.4 now ... you might look into upgrading.

tcaptain · 07-25-2003, 11:57 AM

glad I could help