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

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > I guess I'm not really sure what your "fat, dumb and happy" mode was
> > before, and how Evolution, or a new version of Evolution?, has changed
> > things so you're not in that mode any longer...?
>
> I did not pay attention to archiving because I thought everything was
> copied to my hard drive.

If you stay with your current mail provider, then your best bet is to
do what Reid suggests and set up an automated system to copy IMAP mail
to your local machine independent of Evolution.  I would add that I
know people have used "offlineimap" for this sort of thing as well.

> My isp has a 90 day limit that I did not know about.  The only
> alternative is tw, and I doubt that the will be a big improvement.  I do
> think it is time to get better email hosting, which is independent of
> the isp.

There shouldn't be any reason to restrict your mail provider to just
your ISP (unless they are real bastards and block access to other
places! In which case dump them.).  Gmail is a reasonable start and it
is integrated nicely with Evolution via Gnome online accounts -
although some of the ways they do things is a bit non-standard.

P.