On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:30 -0500, Internaut at Large wrote: > Greetings, > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:35 -0800, David Graves wrote: > > > I leave evolution open on my home machine and head to work. I read and > > > delete emails all day at work. I come home to find all my messages > > > unread at home and if I do anything except close evolution > > > immediately, > > > it undeletes all the deleted mail and marks unread all the read mail. > > > > This has been discussed many times. The basic problem is that IMAP is > > not designed for concurrent access from multiple clients. Each client > > maintains its own state and there's no standard way for them to synch > > with each other. > > > > An explicit "sync" command from Evo could update the server state, but > > wouldn't update other clients until they also synched. Then you have the > > problem of possible inconsistency between updates, i.e. this is harder > > to do transparently than it looks. > > > > It used to be the case that switching folders would force an update. I > > don't know if that's still true, but even if it is it still wouldn't > > guarantee consistency between multiple clients. > > > > My solution to this is never to have two instances of Evo open at once. > > When I leave home, I close Evo, ditto when I leave the office, and I > > have no problems of this sort. > > When you say you "close evo" does that involve shutting down the > evolution data services as well? (For those who don't know ... if you > don't actually log out, or shut down that machine, doing a evolution > --force-shutdown does it.)
Not necessary in this case. Just close the front-end (File->Quit). poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
