Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-03 Thread Ángel González
dave boland wrote: > How do I do that?  I went through all the account properties and > could not find a way to change to POP without recreating the account, > which I don’t want to do.   You need to configure your email as a new evolution account. There's no way to "reconfigure an IMAP account as

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-03 Thread dave boland
How do I do that? I went through all the account properties and could not find a way to change to POP without recreating the account, which I don’t want to do. Also, does Evolution have the ability to leave mail on the server so I have access to it remotely? It used to, but that was a few versio

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-03 Thread Ángel González
Even easier would be to configure the same account in evolution using POP, which is what you had been using in the previous evolution version. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... h

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-03 Thread George Reeke
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 22:33 +, Pete Biggs wrote: ---trimmed--- >> My isp has a 90 day limit that I did not know about. The only >> alternative is tw, and I doubt that the will be a big improvement. >> I do think it is time to get better email hosting, which is >> independent of the isp. > The

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-03 Thread dave boland
Thanks Roy. Top of today's to do list is new email provider, and I will seriously consider this. Dave, On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 02:35 AM, agua...@openmailbox.org wrote: > El 2015-12-03 02:22, dave boland escribió: > > Paul, > > > > I have used gmail, but I'm bothered by their privacy and their d

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread aguador
El 2015-12-03 02:22, dave boland escribió: Paul, I have used gmail, but I'm bothered by their privacy and their desire to sell personal information. Same for Yahoo. Dave, On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 04:02 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:19 -0500, dave boland wrote: > My isp has

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
Paul, I have used gmail, but I'm bothered by their privacy and their desire to sell personal information. Same for Yahoo. Dave, On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 04:02 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:19 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > My isp has a 90 day limit that I did not know about. T

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I guess I'm not really sure what your "fat, dumb and happy" mode was > > before, and how Evolution, or a new version of Evolution?, has changed > > things so you're not in that mode any longer...? > > I did not pay attention to archiving because I thought everything was > copied to my hard dr

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:19 -0500, dave boland wrote: > My isp has a 90 day limit that I did not know about. The only > alternative is tw, and I doubt that the will be a big improvement. Ugh. I'm not sure why you're restricted to only those two alternatives, but that's a bummer. You could try g

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread James Lay
On 2015-12-02 13:19, dave boland wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 03:01 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:45 -0500, dave boland wrote: > This may be what I do, but for now (and rest of a very busy December), > I'm looking for an easier way. I guess that may be a monthly combing > my

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 03:01 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:45 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > This may be what I do, but for now (and rest of a very busy December), > > I'm looking for an easier way. I guess that may be a monthly combing > > my email to see what needs to be sa

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:45 -0500, dave boland wrote: > This may be what I do, but for now (and rest of a very busy December), > I'm looking for an easier way. I guess that may be a monthly combing > my email to see what needs to be saved, then copying it to a folder. > I admit, I have been fat

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
This may be what I do, but for now (and rest of a very busy December), I'm looking for an easier way. I guess that may be a monthly combing my email to see what needs to be saved, then copying it to a folder. I admit, I have been fat, dumb and happy for too long, and should have been doing this a

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:48 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > Thanks for the insight.  There is an IMAP option in Evolution to > > synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this > > option. > >  Does anyone know what it does and t

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:48 -0500, dave boland wrote: > Thanks for the insight. There is an IMAP option in Evolution to > synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this > option. > Does anyone know what it does and the pros/cons? > > My objective is to have a local copy (on my

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
Paul, Thanks for the insight. There is an IMAP option in Evolution to synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this option. Does anyone know what it does and the pros/cons? My objective is to have a local copy (on my computer or email server) of all sent and received email, w

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:21 -0500, dave boland wrote: > Am I correct in thinking POP did download the messages for local > storage? Correct. This is the major difference between POP and IMAP. POP is a simple delivery facility for email: when you access it it downloads the entire mailbox from the

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:21 -0500, dave boland wrote: > Am I correct in thinking POP did download the messages for local > storage? > > Dave, > yes ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, vis

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:36 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > Oh my!!  I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the > > emails, but they are going to try to get them back. > > As I said, "purging" as in expunging deleted emails,

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:36 -0500, dave boland wrote: > Oh my!!  I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the > emails, but they are going to try to get them back. As I said, "purging" as in expunging deleted emails, or "purging" as in arbitrarily removing emails older than a cert

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
Oh my!! I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the emails, but they are going to try to get them back. I was always under the impression that the full email was downloaded to my computer, but it looks like that is not the case currently. So I could benefit from some education

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The emails are located in a number of locations, but some are in my > inbox of an old account no longer used, most are in Sent.  The search > reveals that nothing in my current Inbox os older than early September.  Can you access your mail on the server using some other method - such as webm

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
Reid, The emails are located in a number of locations, but some are in my inbox of an old account no longer used, most are in Sent. The search reveals that nothing in my current Inbox os older than early September. It looks like they have been automatically purged. Not good! Dave, On Wed, Dec

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 10:19 -0500, dave boland wrote: > I had an idea a little while ago - search for older messages to see if > they were still there.  I did an advanced search for anything before > 2014.  I kept getting a message saying (essentially) nothing found.  > However in the Unmatched fol

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 10:19 -0500, dave boland wrote: > I had an idea a little while ago - search for older messages to see if > they were still there.  I did an advanced search for anything before > 2014.  I kept getting a message saying (essentially) nothing found. > However in the Unmatched fol

[Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread dave boland
I had an idea a little while ago - search for older messages to see if they were still there. I did an advanced search for anything before 2014. I kept getting a message saying (essentially) nothing found. However in the Unmatched folder, there are all the old messages (emails). So they are the