Evolution EWS forgets default folder settings

[Ian Redfern]

evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 (latest)
evolution-ews 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 (latest)

Create an EWS account and in Preferences/Mail Accounts/[Account]/Defaults attempt to set the Draft Messages folder and Sent Messages folder to be the corresponding folders in On This Computer, rather than on the Exchange server (e.g. by pressing "Restore Defaults").

This works fine for the remainder of your session. A
grep Folder= ~/.config/evolution/sources/*
will confirm the change.

Now quit Evolution and restart it - the settings will immediately switch to the Drafts and Sent Items folders on your Exchange server. This can be confirmed by the above grep. I would expect the settings to be unchanged by a restart.

100% repeatable, and annoying if you prefer to keep your mail locally.

[John (jbt-8)]

I've been experiencing precisely the same problem. Evolution version 3.10.4 on Gnome 3.10.2 on Fedora 20.

[Ian Redfern (ian-redfern)]

I can confirm the same problem is in Ubuntu 14.10 AMD64:

evolution 3.12.7-0ubuntu1
evolution-ews 3.12.7-0ubuntu1

[Ian Redfern (ian-redfern)]

Problem now fixed and can no longer reproduce.

evolution-ews_3.12.7-1
evolution_3.12.7-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 14.10 AMD64

Draft Messages and Sent Messages folders now stay as On This Computer rather than changing every restart, and this has been working for over a week.

Note that to solve another crashing problem I deleted my folders.db, installed the debug versions of the Evolution packages and moved all the messages out of my local Sent folder - no idea if these actions affected this bug.