Re: [Evolution] Mail account question

[Internaut at Large <dkap mailhost haven org>]

Greetings,

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 08:14 -0400, Hank Galligan wrote:
> I have been searching everywhere for this answer as I assume it is
> somewhere but I can't find it.
>
> I am using a yahoo email account with evolution and when I delete a
> message in Evolution it does not delete in yahoo - can anyone tell me
> what I am missing as I am sure it has to be something simple.

How are you getting your mail from yahoo to Evolution?  If you are
popping it (which seems to be the only supported way, at the moment,
when you pop, are you still leaving a copy on the server?  In which
case, every time you use the pop3 protocol to retrieve it, all of it is
still there.

If you have found some way to get yahoo to do IMAP, I'd love to hear it,
I mostly moved over to google, because they support IMAP (granted, not
100% compatible with Evolution, you have to "move" a message to the
"Trash" folder from your "All Mail" folder, then delete it then expunge
it to get it to delete, but I believe that is, while a problem for
Evolution (since gmail's interface works just fine) a (deliberate)
violation of the RFC proper on google's behalf.

There is also another way to get your mail from Yahoo, and onto your
local machine that I know of.  I believe it is called "fetchyahoo" 
( http://fetchyahoo.sourceforge.net/ IIRC) and then, you can treat it
like any other local account, run it through your procmail filters, et
al.  And that, set properly, deletes your mail on the server.  I don't
recall if you can get your multiple mailboxes, but ... it might be
possible.

Good luck!

-dkap