Re: [Evolution] POP3 download error

[John Schmidt <jschmidt amis com>]

Sorry, but I should have provided more detail regarding
evolution's inadvertently deleted messages.  I'm using
v. 1.2.1 on Suse 8.1

I hadn't touched my settings in quite some time.
I didn't have it set to "keep messages on server", 
none of the messages was over 4 days old and
none of them had been downloaded previously.

Why would I see the "expunging deleted messages" flash
repeatedly for about 20 seconds in the "Send and Receive
Mail" window?  I don't normally ever see that, but there it
was and the results were such that most (a few actually did
show up) messages I'd seen from the web mail tool never
showed up in my evolution mail tool.

If this is the only report of this behavior then I'll deal with
it, but I'm convinced it wasn't anything I'd done.  I've been
using evo. quite happily for a while and haven't had to touch
any settings lately but now I'm gun-shy and will switch to
leaving messages on the server.

John



On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 18:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> What probably happened was that you have Evolution configured to keep
> old messages on the server and so while there may have been 100
> messages, only 4 of them were new (in that evolution had never seen them
> before), so it only downloaded those 4.
>
> if Evolution *did* delete them from the pop server, then perhaps you
> used to have it configured to keep-on-server and then turned that option
> off, at which point evolution would have downloaded the enw messages and
> then deleted all of them (that's what you wanted after all).
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:37, John Schmidt wrote:
> > I downloaded mail from a POP3 server after being away for
> > several days.  There were around 100 messages there
> > (as I had checked via my ISP's web-based email tool).
> > 
> > However, evolution only retrieved 4 messages, and I noticed it
> > showed a bunch of "expunging deleted messages" notices in
> > the "Send and Receive Mail" window.  After that, all mail had
> > been removed from the server and apparently it's gone.
> > 
> > Is this a known bug?
> > 
> > John
> >