Ooops I found out I'd set the "show" setting to "unread messages", therefore obscuring my read messages.
My apologies for the initial posting and then the repeat when I made an unrelated false assumption. /me feels like a real idiot Thank you On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 17:18 -0400, Donald Buchan wrote: > Yesterday and today I'd had a curious experience with Evolution 3.12.11 > on my Fedora 21 machine. I retrieve email from a pop server, and this > being my primary personal machine, I do not leave email on the server. > > 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. > > Saturday evening I received a legitimate (though mass-mailed) email from > an online retailer with information regarding a purchase I'd made. > (Obviously, the mass-mailing nature of the email indicates that I'm in a > class of people having made similar purchases, to which the information > applied.) > > I opened the email, and incidentally had to manually load the inline > picture that was attached due to the settings I have. No trouble. > > Then I closed the email by clicking on the little "x" in the upper-right > hand corner of the window, fully assuming that the email would stay in > my inbox (this of course is normal, expected behaviour; that I mention > it of course should raise flags.) Upon looking in the inbox, the email > was nowhere to be seen. > > I checked the junk box in the possible expectation that for once the > spamassassin plugin had actually worked -- which it never seems to on my > machines, given all the spam that does get past my ISP and arriving in > my inbox, and the perpetual absence of any messages in the junkbox -- > and the email in question wasn't there (and yes the folder was empty). > Then I checked the trash box. The email in question wasn't there. > > I even did a filter search for a part of the email address in the inbox > as well as in a few other folders. No luck. > > No, I had not deleted the message. However, personal custom forced me > to concede the possibility that I may have done "something" (such as > deletion) without realizing it, and I moved on. > > This morning I emailed the merchant to resend the message and surprise > surprise they resent it to me quickly, on a Sunday morning. > > I checked the message which this time had a pdf attachment of the > message; I opened the pdf, consulted it, and didn't bother to save it > despite inklings that I should have, before I closed the viewer. > > I seem to have closed the email in question, and in any case I checked > my inbox and the email was gone; it wasn't in the junkbox nor trashbox. > I repeated the above experiences, and am now convinced that somehow > something has happened that in days gone by would have be attributed to > proverbial gremlins. > > I find this curious since beyond suspecting that yesterday I may have > lost a few other emails, this happened twice to two emails from the same > sender. > > Putting aside repeating my request to the merchant in order to receive > the email yet again, possibly doing any of the following, has anyone had > this experience, and if so, figured out how to prevent it from happening > again, and possibly how to retrieve the emails? > > - use another account such as my work email > - use another computer such as my laptop or my work laptop > - use my webmail instead of evolution > - save the attachment the moment the email arrives > - take a screenshot of the new email and save that > - change my evolution settings to "leave email on server" > - change to imap > - etc. etc. etc. > > Thank you > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
