Re: [Evolution] Download individual mail account.

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:45 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Evo doesn't provide for this, unfortunately. All you can is disable the
> > accounts you don't want, hit Send/Receive, then reenable them (which may
> > trigger them being downloaded anyway, I'm not sure).
> >
> > This sucks and requests to change it date back years.
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Do you know of any particular bug #'s or mailing threads about this?
> I've been wishing for this myself since I started using a POP account
> recently and I'm trying to get some historical perspective on whether
> there's complications involved or just no one has gotten around to it.

It's not one I've reported myself so I can't be certain it's in BZ, but
I know for a fact that it has been mentioned before and should be in the
archives, probably a few years back.

> I would expect to be able to right-click on an account name and see a
> "Send / Receive" item that would refresh just that account.  Or in the
> case of "On This Computer", refresh any accounts that download mail to
> your local Inbox.

Exactly. Every other MUA in the known universe does this so I don't see
why we have to be so special :-)

poc

PS: OT, but if you're looking for something to do I have a few others
which I did report to BZ but haven't received any love :-), such as

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268644
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234539
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271140 (or
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202257)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386036