Re: [Evolution] Re: working offline / headers only / IMAP

[Erich Weidner <mettius cactusairforce org>]

I subscribed to the list to find out how to do syncing.
Suggestions:
I must say that the Documentation doesn't mention this (anywhere I could find).
I suggest updating the documentation to explain syncing with IMAP, as well as explaining this pecular behaviour (not syncing everything).
If it is in the Docs it is hidden too well. The sections on IMAP should describe this, or at least have a link to a section of the manual that does.

I hope in the future evolution will give the user control of how syncing is performed (as it is now, or the full montey). 

That being said, I'm very happy with evolution, since I started with it, I've not looked back once!

-Mettius


On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:51, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> that would be correct. going offline only syncs: 1) unread mail 2)
> important mail
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:57, Owen Barder wrote:
> > Jeff, and others
> > 
> > Thanks for your very prompt reply.  I have already ticked all the
> > folders in Settings | Folder Settings | Offline Folders so that is not
> > the problem - I still only get headers for some messages, and if I click
> > on the message to view the message body I get "Error retrieving message
> > 303. You must be working online to complete this operation". 
> > 
> > I have experimented further, and found that the problem is not quite as
> > I described in my earlier email (in which I thought it was a problem of
> > subfolders).  
> > 
> > I now find that the problem is that mail messages do not seem to be
> > cached if they have already been read on another client (eg using a web
> > client). In this case, I only get the header.  It seems that the body of
> > messages that are unread; or which have been read using this copy of
> > Evolution before going offline, are properly cached when you go
> > offline.  (I am not sure yet whether there are exceptions to this.)
> > 
> > I would be grateful for any further advice on this.
> > 
> > Owen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:26, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > In the settings, you can configure which folders are to be synced to 
> > > disk when going offline.