Re: [Evolution] Junk email - please help!

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > You haven't said how you retrieve mail from the server: pop, imap,
> > exchange??
>    Sorry...exchange connector.

You said to Patrick that you use imap??

> > Also, are you sure it's evo that's the problem?  Is there any server
> > side filtering done?  You said in the previous email that you deleted
> > the 'junk' folder on the server, could the server be trying to filter
> > mail into the junk folder and then just dropping the mail when that
> > folder doesn't exist.  Try re-creating the junk folder (using New ->
> > Mail Folder) and see if the junk starts to appear.
>  No, other clients see the mail. Only evo hides it. Oh and it marks it
> read as it does so. So its the junk filter.

If it hides it, have you turned off "Hide Deleted Messages" under
"View"?  Have you tried clicking on "Show hidden messages".  Is it
something absolutely stupid like a search still active?

>    I cannot remember what went wrong with the junk folder originally,
> but I am pretty sure I don't want a real one, I want an evo virtual one.
> A real one would just get in the way, no?

No, they are separate entities - a server side junk folder is just
another folder to Evo (that just happens to be called "junk") - you can
have a virtual folder and a real folder called "junk" without any
problems.

P.