On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 15:32 +1000, Doug Hutcheson wrote: > I use gmail as my mail server and access it using POP (inward) and > IMAP (outward).
Hi, if you are using POP to receive messages, I suspect you are using SMPT to send messages. Btw. taking a brief look, I don't see any option to see any mail number in the status bar. I only see numbers in a pop up dialog box, but it's to fast to say what actually is displayed. > As at this moment, I have 146 messages on the server, as I have not > cleaned it up for a few days, but the countdown always stops at 19 or > 20 (it's hard to tell because it clears so quickly at the end). Yes, there could be 146 mails on the server and you probably already downloaded 126, so there are only 20 mails to download. You expect that the first number shows the amount of mails that will get downloaded and the other displays the countdown, but actually the first number might show the mails on the server, as e.g. Claws does. Doing a very short research I couldn't find any information that there are two number, one showing the amount of mails that need to get downloaded and another showing a countdown. Maybe one number just shows how many mails are still on the server, IOW the amount of mails that were already downloaded + the mails that were not downloaded. > It must be something that is remembered either on the server or > locally, but I can't see how it could be the server because of the > number of messages discussed above. Sure the MUA, in this case Evolution, remembers what mails already were downloaded, to avoid to download them as duplicates. You could automatically delete mails from the server by Edit > Preferences > Mail accounts > select an account and double-click > Receiving options > Uncheck "Leave messages on server" but then they are deleted on the server and no other MUA could download them, too. However, in this case downloading mails is faster, because the check, if mails were already downloaded is faster and the number of mails on the server is equal to the number that will be downloaded, so you would get of your "issue". Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
