Re: [Evolution] help!

[Dinbandhu <dinbandhu sprynet com>]

Please, if someone could kindly take a look at the below and let me know how I could fix it. I'm afraid to 
send/receive any further, because I'll just go on losing mail.

-----Original Message-----
> From: Dinbandhu <dinbandhu sprynet com>
> Sent: Jul 14, 2009 12:09 PM
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] help!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>
> > Sent: Jul 14, 2009 10:57 AM
> > To: evolution-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] help!
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:47 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote:
> > > I just transferred all my evolution data to a new computer--as I have done several times in the past--and 
> > > opened evolution. It looks fine, and all my data is there. So I downloaded my new mail, of which there is 
> > > a lot as I have been away for a month. It downloaded all two hundred or so mails, and expunged them from 
> > > the server as usual. But the mail is not there in my inbox! So where could it be? It is no longer on the 
> > > earthlink server, as it has all been expunged after the download. I do hope all that mail is not lost. I 
> > > tried closing and reopening evo to see if the new mail would appear. But it is still not showing. And the 
> > > "show" options are set to "all messages". So they should be showing. What do I do?
> >
> >
> >      Hi,
> > I'm sorry, but starting with questions rather than answers because more
> > info needed:
> > - what's your evolution version?
> > - what account type is this? (I guess POP3)
> > - maybe they got marked as junk?
> > - when you run evolution from console, does it claim anything?
> >
> > All your mails should be stored under
> > ~/.evolution/mail
> > those from POP3 has its 'pop' folders, for other types other
> > subdirectory. Those POP3 messages are stored under On This Computer,
> > thus I would start searching there. They should stay in POP cache
> > probably too.
>
> Thanks for your reply :)   ( answered this right away, but by mistake sent it only to Milan)
>
> Version: Evolution 2.24.3
> Account type: POP3
> Junk Folder: empty
> "On This Computer" folder: empty (although it does of course contain all my other folders, which themselves 
> have mail in them)
> "Inbox" folder: contains old mail (transferred from my previous computer), but no new mail.
> I do not know what it means to "run evolution from console".
>
> Where should I look next?
>
> Swarup
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