[Users] Fedora 25 upgrade renders Claws Mail unusable

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:03:19 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Edward,
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:51:48 -0500 edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> 
> > On 11/24/2016 10:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
> > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:34:06 -0500, edwardp at linuxmail.org
> > > wrote:    
> > >> Changing protocol=0 to protocol=1 in accountrc, did not fix
> > >> this, they still come up as POP3 and can't be changed.
> > >>
> > >> Wonderful.    
> > > You need to mention from what version you downgraded to 3.13.2-1
> > > or upgraded to 3.14. If I shouldn't have missed an email, then
> > > you didn't mention what version you used and what version you
> > > installed and run after that.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ralf
> > >
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> > 
> > The original version under Fedora 24 was 3.13.2, the Fedora upgrade
> > process should have upgraded this to 3.14, but it "downgraded" it
> > back to 3.13.2. Why it did this, I do not know. I have filed a bug
> > report on this over at Red Hat, including a reference to bug 3733
> > on Claws Mail Bugzilla.  
> 
> Erm.. something I don't get: if your config files were from 3.13.2-1,
> and after system upgrade, you were running 3.13.2-1, isn't that the
> exact same version? Meaning, okay you didn't get the expected 3.14
> one, but this shouldn't have broken your config anyway?
> 
> 
> Regards,

Technically, yes. Same version, so nothing should have changed, except
the package has fc25 in the filename rather than fc24. 

The "downgrade" also deleted all of the account passwords, so I had to
add those back in...

Changing the protocol entry to 3, worked. The accounts are now back to
IMAP.