Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

[dave boland <dboland9 fastmail fm>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:36 -0500, dave boland wrote:
> > Oh my!!  I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the
> > emails, but they are going to try to get them back.
>
> As I said, "purging" as in expunging deleted emails, or "purging" as in
> arbitrarily removing emails older than a certain date?  (If the latter,
> get a new mail provider!)

They are removing e-mails older than about 3 months.  Call it what you
want.  Getting a new isp is not as easy as it looks because the
alternative is time-warner.

> And I presume this action by your ISP is co-incidental with your change
> of Evolution version? i.e. it's not actually an Evolution issue per se?

Correct.

> > I was always under the impression that the full email was downloaded to
> > my computer, but it looks like that is not the case currently.  So I
> > could benefit from some education on what is really happening, and how
> > to make sure I have the e-mails like I used to have.  Perhaps this is a
> > setting in Evolution - I don't know at this point because I'm not sure
> > what to look for.  Your help is appreciated.

> >
> Evolution can download messages for "off-line access", but it's
> certainly not a "make a copy on my computer so I know they are safe"
> sort of thing.  The whole premise of IMAP is that messages are kept on
> the server rather than the local computer since servers are generally
> more secure, better maintained, backed up, and so on.

Am I correct in thinking POP did download the messages for local
storage?

Dave,


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