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Subject: Re: [Evolution] Signatures are not saved
From: "Paulo Cesar G. Costa" <paulo () costafamily ! org>
Date: 2019-01-29 3:39:09
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Milan,
Problem solved! Thanks!
The issue was not the use of symlinks, but the fact that the drive they
were
pointing to was formatted as NTSF. My entry in /etc/fstab was:
LABEL=Mail /mnt/Mail ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,x-gvfs-show 0 0
Which works well in other places I use NTFS partitions in Linux. However,
the NTFS formatting seems to mess with the attributes and/or the
permissions. I moved all mail to an ext4 partition, redirected the
symbolic links and now the signatures work as expected.
All the best,
Paulo
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:39 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 09:21 -0500, Paulo Cesar G. Costa wrote:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 20 21:20 evolution -> /mnt....
>
> Hi,having the file owned by root:root, instead of pc:pc, looks a
> bitsuspicious, despite the "everyone can do everything" attributes.
> > Thus, given that:1) I cannot find anything that would indicate an issue in
> > the filesystem2) The signature files are being properly saved by evolution
> > in thecorrect folder and the fact that the error messages point to a NULL
> > symlink, my bestguess is that something internal to Evolution may be causing
> > it tonot follow the symlink.
>
> Okay, that you symlink the files into a mounted partition is kind ofimportant
> detail, because it's not the standard way of runningEvolution.
> It seems that the code thinks that your signature is a script.
> That'srecognized by file attributes. Does the file in /mnt/.... have
> theexecutable attribute set? What is the partition type of the /mnt/Mail?Some
> can "garbage" file attributes used by Linux systems. Bye, Milan
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vlink="#f7f7f7"><div><br></div><div>Milan,</div><div><br></div><div>Problem solved! \
Thanks!</div><div class="-x-evo-signature-wrapper"><span class="-x-evo-signature" \
id="none"></span></div><div><pre>The issue was not the use of symlinks, but the fact \
that the drive they </pre><pre>were pointing to was formatted as NTSF. My entry \
in /etc/fstab was:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>LABEL=Mail /mnt/Mail ntfs-3g \
uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,x-gvfs-show 0 0</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Which works \
well in other places I use NTFS partitions in Linux. However,</pre><pre>the NTFS \
formatting seems to mess with the attributes and/or the </pre><pre>permissions. \
I moved all mail to an ext4 partition, redirected the </pre><pre>symbolic links \
and now the signatures work as expected.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>All the \
best,</pre></div><div>Paulo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, \
2019-01-28 at 10:39 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:</div><blockquote \
type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 09:21 -0500, Paulo Cesar G. Costa \
wrote:</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 20 21:20 evolution \
-> /mnt....</pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre> Hi,</pre><pre>having the file \
owned by root:root, instead of pc:pc, looks a bit</pre><pre>suspicious, despite the \
"everyone can do everything" attributes.</pre><pre><br></pre><blockquote type="cite" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Thus, \
given that:</pre><pre>1) I cannot find anything that would indicate an issue in the \
file</pre><pre>system</pre><pre>2) The signature files are being properly saved by \
evolution in the</pre><pre>correct folder </pre><pre>and the fact that the error \
messages point to a NULL symlink, my best</pre><pre>guess is that something internal \
to Evolution may be causing it to</pre><pre>not follow the \
symlink.</pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>Okay, that you symlink the files into \
a mounted partition is kind of</pre><pre>important detail, because it's not the \
standard way of running</pre><pre>Evolution.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>It seems that \
the code thinks that your signature is a script. That's</pre><pre>recognized by file \
attributes. Does the file in /mnt/.... have the</pre><pre>executable attribute set? \
What is the partition type of the /mnt/Mail?</pre><pre>Some can "garbage" file \
attributes used by Linux \
systems.</pre><pre> Bye,</pre><pre> Milan</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>evolution-list \
mailing list</pre><a \
href="mailto:evolution-list@gnome.org"><pre>evolution-list@gnome.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>To \
change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ...</pre><a \
href="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list"><pre>https://mail.gnome. \
org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list</pre></a><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>
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