I haven't either. I get the exact same result, I might add that just the original rpm distrubution from the 7.2 cds also had the same problem as you for me except in addition to the /Inbox , I had the same error with /Outbox , /Sent , /Trash as well as /Drafts and any attempt to run mail config ended up with a button that greyed out for adding SMTP / POP server[s] It won't allow entry of a server and it won't save the settings. Looking in /home/phil/evolution/local/ these directories do in fact exist, so the whole ordeal don't make a bit of logical sense. I too have read the part about starting evolution with a command-line, I haven't researched that yet. Got to ask yourself why there is a shortcut icon to the binary if it needs a command-line. Nevertheless.. I read somewhere to install the source. Er, might have been download and install the source, I forgot what that message said, maybe it even said download gnome and evolution and install the source..... I don't remember now. I have done the install the source from the 7.2 pro distro cds using YaST2 and selecting the source packge from "zq" and I then bunzip2'e d , tar xfv 'ed , from the /usr/packages/SOURCES/evolution-0.9/ I then ran ./configure , It went through a whole bunch of stuff that looks fine , running "make" (this morning) it reported the following errors: e-msgport.c: In function `e_thread_destroy': e-msgport.c:360: warning: int format, long int arg (arg 2) e-dropdown-button.c: In function `impl_button_press_event': e-dropdown-button.c:120: warning: unused variable `new_state' importer.c: In function `start_import': importer.c:308: warning: implicit declaration of function `e_notice' /opt/gnome/share/idl/Bonobo_Moniker.idl:19: Warning: `MONIKER_ALLOW_USER_INTERACTION' underscores within identifiers are discouraged for use with C-language IDL mappings evolution-shell-component.c:277: warning: `impl_ShellComponent_async_copy_folder' defined but not used e-shell-view-menu.c:451: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type e-storage.c: In function `folder_changed_cb': e-storage.c:119: warning: passing arg 1 of `g_free' discards qualifiers from pointer target type importer/.libs/libevolution-importer.so: undefined reference to `__db185_open' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [evolution] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I hate to say it but I had "different errors" yesterday ;o) I never got to running make install, I have since ran make clean, and I have searched some of the /widgets/.libs directory for some files in libevolution.so.0 with the intent of commenting out some things . I really am clueless and never found what I was looking for or I would just have deleted those lines or commented them out in the code. I found a reference in one file but when I tried to edit the file it wasn't a text file. eheheh , I just exited without changing anything A thought starts to come to mind, 'downloading a newer version will help? ' But... I haven't searched for that yet either since I am still trying to work with what I already have. If there's another version out I am more than capable to find it. I just haven't looked because I haven't gave up on this one yet. back to reading the README . . . *** READ THIS BEFORE YOU START BUILDING ANYTHING! *** Evolution depends on a large number of unreleased and rapidly-changing libraries. Some of these libraries in turn depend on other unreleased and rapidly-changing libraries. Building Evolution is HARD, and it's going to stay hard until all of the libraries it depends on stabilize, and there's nothing we can do to make it any easier until then. hehehe 'HARD' I love it. That's so funny! further down it talks about prefixing ./configure Which lost me. I think gnome path is /opt/gnome , but I don't really know what it was telling me to do. I will try compiling again when I got more time to figure out what all these paths it wants are exactly. and then experiment with different ./configure --xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I got a book called "Linux Programmers reference" and I will try to find out what it wants, when I get a chance. I haven't gave up, just don't have time to keep messing with it at the moment. there was also this information There are mailing list archives available at http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/ and http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/ There is also an #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. I haven't joined the mail lists yet. I haven't been to #evolution on IRC yet. Possibly a quick visit to IRC, with a carfully worded question would result in "our" needed advise. ;o) SIde note: I thought I replied to this yesterday under "Outlook for Linux" but I never saw the message show up, I guess I wrote an individual instead of the whole list. - Sorry I am new to this list (like less than a week.) This time I addressed to suse-linux-e@suse.com so I hope it makes it. heheh My conclusions are that, there are folks out there that have it working somewhere. We need to find them and ask what they did. We need to read and search the files a little more. (I am slightly off kilter since I was running Mandrake mostly and the directories are not where I think they are) There wouldn't be a mail portion of this very promissing looking application if it didn't work. And finally it's probably just something stupid I overlooked somwhere but haven't found yet. I know it WILL work because I have seen email with evolution in the msg headers in MY inbox. kind regards On Friday 29 June 2001 05:16 am, you wrote:

Has anyone successfully gotten Evolution to work on Suse 7.2?

Right out of the box, I installed Evolution through yast. No dependencies were indicated and everything seemed to work ok.

However, when you run the command line "evolution", the application starts but complains about not being able to find "file:///home/list/evolution/local/Drafts"!

Notice the third slash in file:///. The folders and files in question get created when evolution first starts, and the permissions are ok.

I have searched high and low to find where file:/// is.

Anyone?

Tall0n