Cannot change settings on mbox account

[Jim Patterson]

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)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris Wulff (crwulff)]

For me this also happens with imapx accounts. Modifying any setting when editing an imapx account causes the apply button to become disabled. Changing the setting back still leaves apply disabled. Editing preferences for pop accounts works fine for me.