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[Jim Patterson <861060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

After updating to Oneiric, I found my local folders migrated to a new
mbox account. No problem there; I'm sure there are good reasons for it.
However, the mbox account has some bugs / user experience issues, and in
trying to work around them, I've found that I can't change settings on
this account.

The usual mechanism to do this is to use the Edit / Preferences menu
item, select the account with 'Mail Accounts' selected on the left, and
click edit. The account (mine is 'jim@localhost') has protocol 'mbox'.

This works fine for other protocols. For the 'mbox' protocol, the
'Apply' key has been disabled. Consequently, I can't change the settings
on this account, and am left with (for example) a 'from' address that is
meaningless for actually sending out e-mails.

Actually changing data doesn't affect this behaviour (it's not simply
whether I've actually made a change).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fc2d0c1a9f7a9107c5104c45d6ee1b22
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Tue Sep 27 21:15:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (22 days ago)

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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Title:
  Cannot change settings on mbox account

Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After updating to Oneiric, I found my local folders migrated to a new
  mbox account. No problem there; I'm sure there are good reasons for
  it. However, the mbox account has some bugs / user experience issues,
  and in trying to work around them, I've found that I can't change
  settings on this account.

  The usual mechanism to do this is to use the Edit / Preferences menu
  item, select the account with 'Mail Accounts' selected on the left,
  and click edit. The account (mine is 'jim@localhost') has protocol
  'mbox'.

  This works fine for other protocols. For the 'mbox' protocol, the
  'Apply' key has been disabled. Consequently, I can't change the
  settings on this account, and am left with (for example) a 'from'
  address that is meaningless for actually sending out e-mails.

  Actually changing data doesn't affect this behaviour (it's not simply
  whether I've actually made a change).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: evolution 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: fc2d0c1a9f7a9107c5104c45d6ee1b22
  CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
  Date: Tue Sep 27 21:15:41 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evolution
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (22 days ago)

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