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

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:05 +0000, Tony Hamilton wrote:
> 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, 

I am really confused.  This does *NOT* sound like IMAP, it sounds like
POP.

> 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

"overwriting"... what does that mean?  


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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
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