On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 22:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:32:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Because IMAP MUAs only show a list of messages until you decide to > > open one, at which point it's downloaded. POP has to download > > everything even if you don't read it. > Ok, but that already is the problem, I don't want to have a list with > hundred mails, I just want to see a few mails on my mobile device, > downloaded or not downloaded, since the mobile MUA doesn't provide > the features a Linux MUA provides. Does the mobile device's MUA > provide offline IMAP?
Depends on the mobile MUA. On Android the default mail client is lousy. But the K-9 MUA is available for free and provides offline IMAP and the choice to only retrieve the most recent X number of messages [although I don't see much point in not having everything available on the phone - they are sorted after all] > > As to archiving old mails, you can do that if you want just by (in > > Evolution) configuring "copy folder for offline operation", as one > > of several alternatives. > And if I do it again and again, do I get each time a new copy or will > it sync, so that I might lose some mails? No, of course not. > What is the relation between the copied folder/folders and the > folders on the server? 1:1 > Just this single work flow already doesn't provide what I need, since > I don't want to see a list with many mails, I only want a list with a > few mails. May I ask why? Messages are (a) sorted and (b) highlighted if they are read or not. > And assumed the rest for this single work flow should be > solvable, it requires reading manuals, especially for the proprietary > software for the Apple mobile device. I want to make real-time music > with the tablet PC and with POP accounts I'm able to just get the few > mails I want, without much effort. IMAP makes it complicated and > seems not to provide what I want. But from all these questions it is apparent that POP is what is actually making in complicated. With IMAP it is simple: here is your mailbox. > I can sort much more than 10,000 mails easily with a Linux MUA, but I > already can't handle a list (downloaded or not) with around 100 mails > with the Apple MUA, due to missing functionality. Assumed there > should be Evolution available for a Linux tablet PC, then there would > be the other issue, that the Linux tablet PC can't be used for seriou > s music work. To me it sounds like what you really need is server-side filtering. -- Meetings Coordinator, Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers 537 Shirley St NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503-1754 Phone: 616.581.8010 E-mail: awill...@whitemice.org GPG#D95ED383 Web: http://www.marp.org _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
