Evolution throwing away emails for one of my accounts ?

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 13:14:34 UTC 2009


On Friday 13 March 2009 04:07:27 Craig White wrote:

> I have to say that I am confused because I remember you saying that the
> problem was with a gmail account which should have been imap and in the
> imap subdirectory and not the local subdirectory.

I remember when gmail didn't support IMAP ... it really wasn't *that* long ago. 
I still have a machine at home with a load of mail that was collected via POP3 
from gmail. Still, I have it in Maildir format on the local disk ...

> As indicated above, you have an INBOX like a cesspool and you don't
> break it down into subdirectories which is really what you need to do
> and not allow your INBOX or any subdirectory to get that big.

It's a bit rude to throw around words like "cesspool" when you actually 
mean "tower of cards" ;o)




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