Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 02:34 -0700, marcello wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:15 -0700, marcello wrote: > >> I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides > >> on > >> crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders content

Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:15 -0700, marcello wrote: > Once again a simple solution would be having a single inbound filter > applied to ALL messages received from the server, regardless of the > folder they belong to. I've not been able to define such a filter, do > you think is possible? It's not

Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-05 Thread marcello
Chris Williams-17 wrote: > > I don't disagree that it can be convenient to have those messages > retrievable from a local store in an emergency, but trying to treat a > cached copy of your IMAP account as a backup just isn't very safe. As > you've pointed out, backing up those messages, while t

Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Williams
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 02:34 -0700, marcello wrote: > The problem seems quite general to me and I > cannot believe that there is not a built-in procedure to accomplish > this > (something like a configurable warning before the synchronization > process > deletes locally stored messages). I would as

Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-05 Thread marcello
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:15 -0700, marcello wrote: >> I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides >> on >> crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders contents. >> >> Having enabled the "Automatically synchronize remote m

Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:15 -0700, marcello wrote: > I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides on > crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders contents. > > Having enabled the "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" option I > have a local copy

[Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

2008-09-04 Thread marcello
I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides on crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders contents. Having enabled the "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" option I have a local copy of all of the messages, but what happens when I first start