Re: [Evolution] question regarding use

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

A couple of things first. When you are sending mails to the list, don't
just pick a random email and reply to it changing the subject - there
are headers which say that it is a reply to a message (even though you
have changed the subject) and if people have threading turned on your
message might go unnoticed.

Second, it is important that you say what version of Evolution you are
using (Help -> About) - things change over time, sometimes quite
rapidly, so it helps to know this.


On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 14:42 -0700, ARLENE B via evolution-list wrote:
> While you all are obviously very smart folks using evolution, I am not.
> So most of the help and tips are beyond my understanding. What I want
> to know is, why the hell, after I click to 'view' the email (I am not
> clicking to open it, just seeing it in the view pane), does it
> sometimes DISAPPEAR on me.

What sort of mail account is this: POP, IMAP, GMAIL, EWS?

When it disappears does it end up in the spam folder?  It may help to
turn on "show deleted messages" in the View menu so you can see if the
message has been hidden.  You should also check that the "Show:"
selector in the top bar is set to "All Messages".

You might also like to read the help on this at Help -> Contents ->
Common Mail Questions -> "I cannot see some emails, where are they?"

>  And apparently, the CTL+Z does not restore
> it? 

I don't think Ctrl-Z does anything in Evolution message lists - there's
no "Undo".

> It is very irritating, as I get 100s of email a day, and have to
> quickly go through them to preview and delete. I also notice too many
> are ending up in the 'spam' folder. Is this because I am deleting them
> and not viewing the entire email? Some simple answers will help!

Is Evolution scanning for Spam or is it done by your mail provider?

If your messages are already spam filtered before Evolution sees them,
then your best bet is to turn off Evolution's junk filtering (Edit ->
Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Junk and unselect "Check incoming
messages for junk").

If Evolution is doing the spam checking, then you need to train the
spam checker. You do this by going into your Spam folder and mark the
wrongly junked mail as "Not Spam" (there's a button on the top bar);
similarly any messages that should be classified as spam that aren't
can be marked as junk.  Over time (days to weeks) the spam filter will
start working better as it learns what is and is not spam.

P.