Re: [Evolution] Junk mail and Gmail

[Jeffrey Cunningham <jeffrey jkcunningham com>]

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 23:02 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote:

Hi Andre.

Thanks for the questions.

On 14/03/2019 21:19, Andre Klapper wrote:

Hi Steve,

which type of mail account is this? POP? IMAP? Something else?

It is IMAP

Is "Edit > Preferences > Mail Accounts > Edit > Defaults > Use a Real

Folder for Junk" enabled? If it is, what is it set to?

[Gmail]/Spam

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 14:02 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote:

I have junk filter settings all turned off but Evolution persistently

junks about 700 non-junk emails from my other folders

Is "Edit > Preferences > Mail Preferences > Junk > Check incoming

messages for Junk" enabled?

Disabled

Is "Edit > Preferences > Mail Accounts > Edit > Receiving Options >

Options > Check new messages for Junk contents" enabled?

Disabled

If both are not enabled then what makes you think that it is Evolution

that junks emails, and not Gmail itself?

I can use Thunderbird and Kmail on that account  and emails are not junked.

If Gmail is junking the emails, Evolution is initiating it.

How and where exactly did you find out that messages have been junked?

Within 5 minutes of starting Evolution700+ emails with various labels

appear in the spam folder of Gmail.

Viewed in Gmail in Firefox, Thunderbird and Kmail. These are not new

emails but in existing folders.

For what it's worth, I have noticed similar behavior on several occasions - not on such a scale though. Most recently, I was moving forty or fifty emails from a nested folder up to a higher level and an hour later noticed quite a number of them sitting in the Junk folder. Specifically, I was moving them from Inbox/Some/subfolder to Inbox/Other. These emails were at least two years old, and from people in my contacts list which I believe are whitelisted, right? 

I am running 3.30.4, have "Check new messages for Junk contents" turned on but "Only check for Junk messages in the mbox folder" turned off. If it happened more often I would think the latter setting was the problem. But it's rare in my case. I have been rearranging my email folder structure for several months and only noticed this behavior a few times. 

Regards,

--Jeff