On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:36 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > Oh my!! I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the > > emails, but they are going to try to get them back. > > As I said, "purging" as in expunging deleted emails, or "purging" as in > arbitrarily removing emails older than a certain date? (If the latter, > get a new mail provider!)
They are removing e-mails older than about 3 months. Call it what you want. Getting a new isp is not as easy as it looks because the alternative is time-warner. > > And I presume this action by your ISP is co-incidental with your change > of Evolution version? i.e. it's not actually an Evolution issue per se? Correct. > > > > > I was always under the impression that the full email was downloaded to > > my computer, but it looks like that is not the case currently. So I > > could benefit from some education on what is really happening, and how > > to make sure I have the e-mails like I used to have. Perhaps this is a > > setting in Evolution - I don't know at this point because I'm not sure > > what to look for. Your help is appreciated. > > > Evolution can download messages for "off-line access", but it's > certainly not a "make a copy on my computer so I know they are safe" > sort of thing. The whole premise of IMAP is that messages are kept on > the server rather than the local computer since servers are generally > more secure, better maintained, backed up, and so on. Am I correct in thinking POP did download the messages for local storage? Dave, -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
