Re: [Evolution] Cannot Archive Messages Keep Showing Up

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 09:41 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 4/16/2020 6:00 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > IMAP is not designed to handle immediate synchronisation between two
> > clients active on the same account. They will eventually synchronise,
> > but not immediately.
>
> That does depend on your clients and IMAP server. My personal email 
> server running Cyrus IMAP updates instantly between Thunderbird and K9 
> Mail. That's because with an active connection and IDLE (where the 
> client passively waits for notification of changes) watched folders get 
> immediately updated.
>
> I haven't tried this with Evolution lately, but I thought it did support 
> IDLE notification.

It does, but it's an option. And not all IMAP servers are the same.

poc