Re: [Evolution] Evolution will send but not receive Emails

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 8/10/20 9:32 AM, John Nice via evolution-list wrote:
> No, it's just a vanilla isp, usses POP port 110 no encryption
> #John

You can run Evolution with debugging to view the POP commands used. If 
you understand POP that might help you.

Otherwise, if you are using POP with leaving email on server, I have 
seen that screw up several email clients, not just Evolution. POP is 
simply not intended to be used as a permanent email store for multiple 
clients. Clients get confused when other clients change the mailbox.

Or it can go the other way. I believe it was one of the Microsoft mail 
clients that repeatedly fetched ALL of the POP messages in order to 
verify that it already had copies in the local storage. Every time that 
it synced. It didn't lose track of messages but it did use hundreds and 
hundreds of megabytes of unnecessary data traffic.

If POP is all that you have, I strongly recommend setting up an IMAP 
server and doing a full fetch and delete of your email from your ISP POP 
into it on a schedule. Then point all your email clients at the IMAP 
service.

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