Re: [Evolution] New Emails not showing

["Netsol.link" <netsol netgate link>]

On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 12:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 18:25 +0800, Netsol.link wrote:

Ok an other way (a bit radical but should work) is to save the inbox

and all the sub-folders (i have a lot) as mbox and on the receiving

computer delete all the emails in the inbox and all the sub-folders

and

their content, empty trash and then import the mbox. not sure if I

should also delete the 'send' folder as I'm not sure if it would be

included in the mbox? Or I use webmail to trim down the emails to

just

those that I want to keep and then I can download the ones to keep

from

my devices (they all setup to leave mail on server). Only problem is

that I have 6 emails so have to login/logout 6 times!

[Please don't top-post on this list]

To reiterate what Pete and Andre have said: the best solution to all

this is to use IMAP. You say you're already leaving messages on the

server, so there's no reason not to do this. You will avoid all the

headaches of copying stuff back and forth, (mis)-using the Backup

function or futzing around with file internals.

If your mail service supports IMAP, that's what you should be using.

There is no reason to keep using POP if you have the option of

changing.

poc

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I did a complete restore of the whole hard drive and it worked perfectly (thanks Recuezilla - while I backed up a few images, I did not try to restore any so that was a good opportunity to use it and a relief that it worked!) I then spend a lot of time downloading and deleting/sorting emails so that both computer have the same emails. 

Now I need to see if IMAP will work for me: 

I still want 'Hard copies' on at least one computer. 

I have 6 email accounts (3 different domains) that all download into one 'Inbox' (I do not want an 'Inbox' and sub-folders for each account) I then delete what is junk, read and respond (if needed) to emails and then move into folders/sub-folders what I want/need to keep.

If I understand correctly how IMAP works, I will need to recreate my folder structure on the server, but I'm not sure if the all-in one folder structure I use on my hard drive is possible on the server or would I need to make one for each email account? and then when I access my emails, would I have to access one email account at a time? just like 'webmail'?