Re: [Evolution] GUI question: clearing Inbox messages

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

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.

"Disappeared". As others already mentioned, be sure there is no search
active, menu Search / Clear, and the quicksearch bar says "All Messages"
are shown.

Then you could have hidden messages. View / Show Hidden.

Or deleted them (actually mark for, but that's an unrelated story). I
guess you did check your Trash folder, right?

Or, you could have accidentally Junked them. Did you check your Junk
folder?

>    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.

"No clue" doesn't really sound like you actually verified they have been
expunged (physically removed) from the mail store.


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