Loss of legitimate emails in evolution 3.12.11 / F21

[Tim]

On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 16:36 -0400, Donald Buchan wrote:
> Friday and Saturday I was cleaning through my email inbox, triaging
> various accumulated emails to the trash and various subfolders, such
> as "such&such's wedding", "emails regarding the cottage", etc.  I
> began suspecting that the occasional email was just "disappearing"
> when I made transfers to other folders, as in of four consecutive
> emails I would select three, with one in between unselected, make the
> transfer, and find that the unselected email would have disappeared.
> Initially I just lazily allowed for the possibility that somehow it
> had gotten transferred to the subfolder, and I wasn't too interested
> in confirming either way.

Wondering if it's simply "not showing" read messages (in the same way
that you can "hide" messages flagged for deletion, but not yet
expunged).  Have a look through your display/filtering options.

The other thing is, perhaps, how your message lists are sorted.  If you
remove a message, you may end up with evolution re-arranging the order
it lists things in.

Evolution has a lot of quirks/annoyances, though I persevere with it for
being the least-worst client I've tried.  Most clients, that I've
experimented with, fail the absolute basics, such as being able to reply
without mangling the quoted text in horrible ways.

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Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.