On 8/31/21 12:40 AM, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 15:53 -0700, John A via evolution-list wrote: >> 1) Could it be that evolution is getting confused trying to interpret >> these thunderbird "Junk" designations? >> >> 2) Does evolution interpret these thunderbird flags? > > Hi, > yes, and yes. The "Junk" flag is shared between the applications, thus > they both understand them the same way. > > What Pete said about default virtual Junk/Trash folders is correct with > a little exception, since some not so recent version of Evolution (or > better libcamel from the evolution-data-server) the first run after an > IMAP account being configured, it asks the IMAP server for the folder > types and if some are recognized then they are assigned to the folders > in the account settings. This includes Drafts, Sent, Junk and Trash > folders. As both the Dovecot and Courier, you named, support this > special folder flags, the IMAP account found the folders and turned > virtual folders into real folders for the Junk and Trash. After that > begun the download of the folders' content. As you had marked some > messages as Junk from the earlier days, they had been moved to the real > Junk folder according to the settings. Being it a virtual folder, > nothing would be moved. > > As you use multiple clients to connect to your servers, I suggest you > go to Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->IMAP Account->Edit->Defaults > tab and turn off the real Junk and Trash folders, which will use the > virtual folders, thus it will not move the messages around. Such change > may need restart of the Evolution to take into effect fully. You may > also turn off the Junk filtering for the account on the Receiving > Options tab in the account Properties. > > Bye, > Milan
Hello Milan, Thank you for your clarification! With that additional information, I think the behavour I observed is all explained. I will disable SPAM detection completely. (I agree with Pete that this is best done server-side) However, I have been a little hesitant to start evolution at all, given concern that it will start moving files around again. Follow up question: If I want to start evolution, and have it not perform any data parsing or categorization, is it adequate to use: evolution --offline Thank you again, along with Pete and others who have helped me understand the application... John Andrews San Diego CA 2021-09-01 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
