Re: [Evolution] GUI question: clearing Inbox messages

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:28 -0700, jim wrote:
> A couple of times I've had the troubling experience 
> that while mousing about the mail GUI, much or all of 
> the contents of the Inbox (current folder) inadvertently 
> disappears. I certainly did not deliberately highlight 
> and delete, and seems unlikely to have done so without 
> knowing. 
>    I've used the command line to investigate: no clue. 
> It seems messages have been erased, not moved. Note that 
> not all messages are affected. 
>    Can't find clues in Evolution Help. 
>    What mouse or mouse-keyboard events select and clear 
> contents of mail folders? 

Select-All + Delete + Expunge

Which is pretty hard to do inadvertently.

I've accidentally switched the search filter or category filter before
and made everything *appear* to disappear. 

I've never had mailbox contents unintentionally go-away.
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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
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