Re: [Evolution] Remote IMAP Status

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 05:56 -0500, Andrew Joyce wrote:
> I am having some issues getting Evolution and Thunderbird to place nice
> together with my IMAP account.  I access my IMAP from two different
> computers at work and home using Evo on one and Thunderbird on the other
> (work is Windows).  I just recently switched to Evo as I really liked
> the integration features with Gnome and would really like to continue to
> use it but I am having a really annoying problem at the moment.
> 
> First, the cached information on the message state in Evolution isn't
> being committed to the server, even during the periodic mail checks it
> seems.  If I read a message at home in the morning, head off to work and
> then open my mail client there an hour or so later (many five minute
> update periods between!!) the messages I read in the morning are still
> showing as unread.  Is there a configuration option that I am
> potentially missing that allows for the message status to be written
> back to the server?
> 
> Second, if I read and then reply to a message at work on Thunderbird and
> then look at my Evo at home the message status does not update unless I
> *quit* Evolution and start it again.  Changing folders and forcing a
> mail check doesn't seem to work!  The message maintains Evolutions
> cached local status until I restart it.
> 
> I am running Evolution 2.4.1 on Ubuntu.  Any ideas or input would be
> incredibly appreciated as this is really becoming an annoying problem.

Same here (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321447 for a
related issue).

Right now I run Evo at home and in the office, but make sure to quit
before moving from one to the other.

poc