Always error message while sending a mail

[Gorgonilla]

It cames with a fresh installation of ubuntu natty 64bit.
Fresh evolution profile.
Every time I send an email I get the following error message:

"Error while Sending message.

Failed to append to maildir:/home/lviggiani/.local/share/evolution/mail/local;need-summary-check=no#Sent: Cannot get folder '/home/lviggiani/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Sent': not a maildir directory.
Appending to local 'Sent' folder instead."

BTW the mail is actually sent and saved in Sent evolution folder. However this error is annoying as you always have to check whether you have this (fake) error or something else.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evolution 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 30 08:34:09 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, that looks like a broken profile, can you recreate the same on a new user?

[Gorgonilla (lviggiani)]

well I have the same feeling...
is there a way to completely reset my profile in evolution without creating a new ubuntu user?
I already tried to remove ~/.local/share/evolution but it doesn't do the trick... I guess there is more to delete

[Alex White (xanderwhite)]

I'm getting the same error message on my system.

Error while Sending message.
Failed to append to maildir:/home/alex/.local/share/evolution/mail/local;need-summary-check=no#Sent: Cannot get folder '/home/alex/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Sent': not a maildir directory.
Appending to local 'Sent' folder instead.

I started getting the error after reinstalling Natty because I'd installed Gnome3 and it was causing errors (but not in evolution) on my system. After a clean re-install of Natty, Evolution had lost all my emails, I found the files and copied them back into an empty folder allowing evolution to create the extra files it needed. But it seems something is missing.

I don't know if it's a bug but if there's a way of creating a Sent maildir directory that'd be nice.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for evolution (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[bwallum (rbw2)]

I have this error on two machines.

My mail folder structure contains sub folders. I have set up filters to automatically save to sub folders. When I send a message which has no filter and auto filing then all is well.

If I send a message that is filtered and filed to a Sent sub-folder, I get this error report:-

QUOTE
Your message was sent, but an error occurred during post-processing.

The reported error was "Failed to append to mbox:///home/bob/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent: Invalid folder URI 'mbox:///home/bob/.local/share/evolution/mail/local#Sent'
Appending to local 'Sent' folder instead.".
UNQUOTE

The message is sent ok and my copy is filed ok in a custom Sent sub-folder