openoffice upgrade and evolution

Just had a weird problem this morning, and wondered if anyone else had
experienced anything similar.

I'm using Red Hat 9, and Ximian Desktop v.2. I used rug to get and
install the latest version of openoffice: this completed successfully,
however afterwards evolution started complaining that a number of
mailboxes, which I'd converted to maildir format some time ago, were not
in maildir format.

I managed to fix it (lucky hunch more than anything else.) I found that
in each mail box directory, there was only a "cur" subdirectory, and I
vaguely remembered that maildir-format boxes should actually have "cur",
"new" and "tmp" subdirectories. So, I created "new" and "tmp", and to my
enormous relief evolution started without complaint. 
So, I'm left wondering what happened - seems like there are two
possibilities (both equally unlikely), viz: (1) the openoffice update
deleted the "new" and "tmp" subdirectories in maildir-format mailboxes,
or (2) the update installed a new version of a library also used by
evolution, and something in that insists on "new" and "tmp" being
present. 

Very odd.

-- 
Peter W. Duffy


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