Evolution: cannot archive messages

[fedelibre (Federico Bruni)]

I’m using Evolution with a single POP email account.
As you can see below, I set up the Archive folder in the Account settings, but every time I try to archive a message Evolution says:

Cannot archive messages

No Archive folder is configured. Please configure one for the account in order to be able to archive messages.

I don’t know what can I do.

[glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew)]

Maybe you need to create a “local” mail account to route the archived messages to? Below is a link to an older post where I showed someone how a local mail account could be created with Evolution:

Any Evolution Mail users here?

FWIW, here are screenshots of me walking through the whole process. [1708626703_grim] The following step is the only part that there was any real “trick” to. You need to give it an empty directory somewhere. I created a ~/bogusmail directory for this demo. There are files in the directory after the “account” has been created, but they are all hidden files (at least initially). [1708626771_grim] [1708626780_grim] [1708626787_grim] [1708626822_grim]

[fedelibre (Federico Bruni)]

I found the solution in the manual. Setting the Archive folder in the Account settings is not enough. A “fallback folder” must be set in the Preferences as well.

Now the Archive command and Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut work correctly.

Here’s what the user guide says:

You can define an Archive Folder for this account to move older messages there. This requires to first set a fallback folder under Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Mail Preferences ▸ General ▸ Archive Mail. Selecting Message ▸ Archive in the main window moves the selected message to the specified folder.

And this was the missing setting: