Re: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution!

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

Local folders are those stored physically on your machine (under the
tree "On This Computer" in the folder pane). Other folders are stored
remotely on various servers (they may also be cached locally but that's
a separate concept).

poc

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:31 +0100, Peter Barnes wrote:
> The bulk of my email is in the Inbox. I filter a few regular things like newsletters into custom folders, 
> i.e. folders in Evolution that I set up myself. Is that what you mean by Local Folders?
>
> Peter Barnes
>
> > From: "Ron Johnson" <ron l johnson cox net>
>
> > Do you store your email in "Local Folders"?
> >
> > Peter Barnes wrote:
> > > Paul, Thanks for the comments. I sell books worldwide and
> > > therefore have to deal with emails from any country. However,
> > > when this problem happened none of the mail appeared to be in
> > > anything other than English. The last message to download was a
> > > press release from a respectable German company (in English)
> > > which had about five attached files amounting to about 2MB total
> > > (I have seen the message on my old Windows PC).
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with pine, ucbmail, emacs (I'm new to Linux) -
> > > are you saying I could get rid of this last message with this
> > > software?
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Leyland"
> > > > <pcl23 gen cam ac uk> To: evolution-list gnome org Subject: Re:
> > > > [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution! Date: 
> > > > Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:51:31 +0100
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We see this occasionally --- message-of-death we call it
> > > > locally. Almost always the m-o-d is spam in a Chinese character
> > > > set.
> > > >
> > > > The easiest way to deal with a m-o-d is to delete it using some
> > > > other software.  Some people prefer to fire up pine or ucbmail;
> > > > I tend to use Emacs myself.
> > > >
> > > > We generally advise that spam is delivered to a folder which
> > > > has the preview pane inactive.  Very rarely is it necessary to
> > > > see the contents of a mail to determine its spamicity.  In
> > > > particular, if the subject isn't in a Roman alphabet the
> > > > message is flushed instantly.   I recognize that this heuristic
> > > > isn't appropriate for everyone everywhere.
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > Jefferson LA  USA
> >
> > Is "common sense" really valid?
> > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> > are mud people.
> > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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