Re: [Evolution] Solved Re: Loss of legitimate emails in evolution 3.12.11 / F21

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

No problems, Donald!
That will happen to all of us from time to time...
-- 
Rudolf Künzli - rudolf kunzli gmail comSkype: rudolf.kunzli
On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 17:33 -0400, Donald Buchan wrote:
> Ooops
>
> I found out I'd set the "show" setting to "unread messages",
> therefore
> obscuring my read messages.
>
> My apologies for the initial posting and then the repeat when I made
> an
> unrelated false assumption.
>
> /me feels like a real idiot
>
> Thank you
>
> On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 17:18 -0400, Donald Buchan wrote:
> > Yesterday and today I'd had a curious experience with Evolution
> > 3.12.11
> > on my Fedora 21 machine.  I retrieve email from a pop server, and
> > this
> > being my primary personal machine, I do not leave email on the
> > server.
> >
> > Friday and Saturday I was cleaning through my email inbox, triaging
> > various accumulated emails to the trash and various subfolders,
> > such as
> > "such&such's wedding", "emails regarding the cottage", etc.  I
> > began
> > suspecting that the occasional email was just "disappearing" when I
> > made
> > transfers to other folders, as in of four consecutive emails I
> > would
> > select three, with one in between unselected, make the transfer,
> > and
> > find that the unselected email would have disappeared.  Initially I
> > just
> > lazily allowed for the possibility that somehow it had gotten
> > transferred to the subfolder, and I wasn't too interested in
> > confirming
> > either way.
> >
> > Saturday evening I received a legitimate (though mass-mailed) email
> > from
> > an online retailer with information regarding a purchase I'd made.
> > (Obviously, the mass-mailing nature of the email indicates that I'm
> > in a
> > class of people having made similar purchases, to which the
> > information
> > applied.)
> >
> > I opened the email, and incidentally had to manually load the
> > inline
> > picture that was attached due to the settings I have.  No trouble.
> >
> > Then I closed the email by clicking on the little "x" in the upper
> > -right
> > hand corner of the window, fully assuming that the email would stay
> > in
> > my inbox (this of course is normal, expected behaviour; that I
> > mention
> > it of course should raise flags.)  Upon looking in the inbox, the
> > email
> > was nowhere to be seen.
> >
> > I checked the junk box in the possible expectation that for once
> > the
> > spamassassin plugin had actually worked -- which it never seems to
> > on my
> > machines, given all the spam that does get past my ISP and arriving
> > in
> > my inbox, and the perpetual absence of any messages in the junkbox 
> > --
> > and the email in question wasn't there (and yes the folder was
> > empty).
> > Then I checked the trash box.  The email in question wasn't there.
> >
> > I even did a filter search for a part of the email address in the
> > inbox
> > as well as in a few other folders.  No luck.
> >
> > No, I had not deleted the message.  However, personal custom forced
> > me
> > to concede the possibility that I may have done "something" (such
> > as
> > deletion) without realizing it, and I moved on.
> >
> > This morning I emailed the merchant to resend the message and
> > surprise
> > surprise they resent it to me quickly, on a Sunday morning.
> >
> > I checked the message which this time had a pdf attachment of the
> > message; I opened the pdf, consulted it, and didn't bother to save
> > it
> > despite inklings that I should have, before I closed the viewer.
> >
> > I seem to have closed the email in question, and in any case I
> > checked
> > my inbox and the email was gone; it wasn't in the junkbox nor
> > trashbox.
> > I repeated the above experiences, and am now convinced that somehow
> > something has happened that in days gone by would have be
> > attributed to
> > proverbial gremlins.
> >
> > I find this curious since beyond suspecting that yesterday I may
> > have
> > lost a few other emails, this happened twice to two emails from the
> > same
> > sender.
> >
> > Putting aside repeating my request to the merchant in order to
> > receive
> > the email yet again, possibly doing any of the following, has
> > anyone had
> > this experience, and if so, figured out how to prevent it from
> > happening
> > again, and possibly how to retrieve the emails?
> >
> > - use another account such as my work email
> > - use another computer such as my laptop or my work laptop
> > - use my webmail instead of evolution
> > - save the attachment the moment the email arrives
> > - take a screenshot of the new email and save that
> > - change my evolution settings to "leave email on server"
> > - change to imap
> > - etc. etc. etc.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
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