Re: [Evolution] Some emails do not appear in my inbox - why?

[Tony Hamilton <greatbridge virginmedia com>]

Oh Dear - for a silly moment there I thought I knew what I was doing. I
found and followed the (incomplete) instructions given by VirginMedia
for setting up an IMAP account and was foolish enough to think it would
work.

Of course it didn't - and what an unholy mess I am left with - 984 new,
but old messages in my inbox, downloaded from the vm server,
overwriting some which I had left in my Evolution inbox and requiring me
to go through all my folders to see which of these mails I already have
and which I can delete. That's not a 10 minute job. Evolution broke - it
could not be stopped, other then physically powering off my PC (not even
Ubuntu System Monitor could close it).

I have now recovered to the point of restoring my POP account to work (I
hope), but now no new email from any source is received into my
Evolution client.

> From this I conclude that Evolution is unable to work with IMAP accounts
as set up by VirginMedia, which leaves me with the task of migrating
back to Thunderbird. I don't look forward to that because the conversion
from Thunderbird to Evolution 2 years ago took almost 4 days to get a
working system and repair all the corruptions introduced by the process
of converting between the 2 different mail box types.


Maybe a better solution is  to not attempt to synchronise between my
smart-phone and my VM accounts. Which is a crazy situation to be in, in
this day and age. Clearly this process was never adequately tested or
documented.

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 16:01 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 15:55 +0000, Tony Hamilton wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointer, alas VirginMedia have obviously moved things: 
> >
> > "Either the link you clicked is broken, the page has moved or you typed
> > the address wrong."
> >
> > But I'll explore it for myself for a while.
>
> Search for "Manual Email Settings" on the virginmedia.com site and you
> should find it no problem.
>
> Or try this: http://goo.gl/HCdFx
>
>
> P.
>
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