[Evolution] launchmail send and receive

[Bill Case <billlinux rogers com>]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:38 -0500, Bill Case wrote to  fedora-
list redhat com

> Can anyone help with Evo configuration? I tried the manual and the
> Evolution mailing list. The manual doesn't tell me enough and the
> mailing list is apparently not for newbies. Google gives very few
other
> choices.
>
> I have been using Evolution through RH7.1, RH9, FC2 and now FC3, but I
> never paid much attention to its operation -- just used it.
>
> 1) Is Evolution supposed to fetch mail when it is opened? (e.g.
Outlook
> Express and Thunderbird do). 

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:19:59 -0600
From: Thomas Cameron 

|On my system it does, but I use Evolution with an IMAP server, not POP.
|I just tested using POP and it does not seem to check at start.  I
think
|that's a problem, too.

|I think you've found a legit bug.  I think the workaround is to simply
|hit F9 when you start Evo and set your mail retrieval interval to
|something reasonably short (like 5 minutes or so)

I have been doing exactly that.

Have I found a bug?

Is it a known bug?

If it is, should I file a bug report?

(see request from William Case Nov 28 2004 14:42 and earlier requests)