> > I tried offlineimap, and it clearly downloaded all messages from all my > accounts. It seems a much better way of making backups.
Evolution is a mail client, it's not designed to make backups of your remote mail - being able to download and make local copies of messages is only for convenience of access to messages when you are off-line. > Evolution > doesn't give me the same feeling of control over data. That's a pity, > because I have GNOME as my desktop environment of choice and Evolution > is well integrated in it. With webmail I also don't receive > notifications when a message arrives. You don't have to give up Evolution. The purpose of OfflineIMAP is not for backing up emails, it's to provide a local synchronised repository of mail that in reality resides on an IMAP server. The fact that it makes it easy to then backup your email locally is a by-product. Evolution can read the OfflineIMAP mail store (it's in Maildir format), so point Evolution at that repository and just use it as normal. Changes to the local store are synchronised back to the IMAP server. See the OfflineIMAP web pages (http://offlineimap.org/) for more details. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
