Re: [Evolution] Receiving message count is wrong

[Doug Hutcheson <owlbrudder gmail com>]

On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 09:36 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 00:25 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> > Note that gmail does some funny things with its POP implementation.
> > If you keep emails on server, they are listed there... for some time.
> > So even if you have 1000 messages, it maybe shows about 20 there.
> > Probably it is showing the emails read for first time less than a few
> > days ago.
>
>
> 	Hi,
> there's a setting for it, like when you open https://mail.google.com ,
> then click the gear button, there Preferences, there the tab with
> POP/IMAP settings. You can choose what the server shows to the client,
> both with POP and IMAP.
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
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Further to Milan's help, I set Gmail to only allow POP for 'mail received from now on' or words to that effect, and that has solved my problem. Many thanks to all who responded.

Kind regards,

Doug