Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

[Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 02:34 -0700, marcello wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:15 -0700, marcello wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides
> > > on
> > > crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders contents.
> > >
> > > Having enabled the "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" option
> > > I
> > > have a local copy of all of the messages, but what happens when I first
> > > start Evolution after the server disaster and it synchronizes my local
> > > folders with the (empty) remote ones? I expect it to delete all my local
> > > messages (and obviously it is not what I'd like).
> > >
> > > Is this the expected behavior? 
> >
> > I suspect only the developers know what it will do, so play safe and
> > back up your local copies before doing anything.
>
> This is the approach I'm already following.
>
> I've defined both an inbound and an outbound filter which save the messages
> into local folders. It works, but the idea that I have to duplicate all of
> my messages is a bit annoying. The problem seems quite general to me and I
> cannot believe that there is not a built-in procedure to accomplish this
> (something like a configurable warning before the synchronization process
> deletes locally stored messages).

The situation you describe is related to a problem on the server, where
a bunch of mails has been lost. How would Evo be expected to know this
and deal with it? The alternative is for it never to delete local mail
without asking, but that negates the usual meaning of "synch". Yes, an
extra flag could be invented for this situation, but IMHO it's far from
being "normal", so what you're saying is you can't believe the Evo
devels haven't considered this very unusual case and catered for it.

poc