Re: [Evolution] unsearching

[Michael Hennebry <hennebry web cs ndsu nodak edu>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Pete Biggs wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 13:50 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > I sent a test message to an exchange account that I access through IMAP.
> > The message is visible through the web interface,
> > but so far as I can tell, evolution hasn't found it yet.
> > Refresh does not seem to do the trick.
> > Before I discovered sort, I did a search.
> > The test message was not in the result, but should have been.
> > Having done the seach, I can't seem to get out of it.
> > All I can see of my Inbox is the search result.
> > Quitting and restarting does not help.
> > How do I see the rest of my messages?
> > Why can't I refresh?
>
> You don't say, but can we just check that you have cleared the search by
> pressing the yellow brush (I think it's supposed to be??) icon at the
> right hand end of the search box?

I have now.

> In general it is thought to be a "bad thing" to load all images in every
> message - many spam mailers use these net images to monitor and harvest
> addresses that are live: a small single pixel gif with a unique name
> will immediately tell a spammer that the message that contained it was
> delivered and read and hence went to a live address. This is just one of
> the many ways images in emails can be used in naughty way - there are
> many others.

In this case, the messages are from a son-to-be-defunct source from
which such problems have been deleted.

Also, thanks for giving the information along with the don't-do-that.

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Michael   hennebry web cs ndsu NoDak edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."