Re: [Evolution] newbie question - many accounts, one inbox - How???

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 08:29 +0100, Roger Creagh via evolution-list
wrote:
> One quirk it showed up was that although in MacMail my hotmail inbox only has 202 messages in it going back 
> about 8 months, in Evolution there are many thousand going back to 2008 which would be about when I started 
> using a mac. So it looks like the Mac has never been deleting messages on the server, just hiding them. 
> (obvs not an evolution problem :-) )

Presumably you had at some time set an option in MacMail equivalent to
"keep messages on server", which Evo can also do. It's basically a
kludge for people who don't (or can't) use IMAP.

poc