Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 11:40 +0100, Karsten Kloss wrote: > Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your > backup. > The problem with using POP in this case is that the flow of mail is in one direction whereas OfflineIMAP will synchronise changes in both directions, which all

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 14:14 -0700, Bart wrote: > On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 11:40 +0100, Karsten Kloss wrote: > > Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your > > backup. > > > > regards > > Karsten > > > > Oh oh! You said the "P" word! :) > > The next 14 messages will be ab

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Bart
On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 11:40 +0100, Karsten Kloss wrote: > Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your > backup. > > regards > Karsten > Oh oh! You said the "P" word! :) The next 14 messages will be about how old, outdated, ugly, unusable and several more degrading adje

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Karsten Kloss
Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your backup. regards Karsten Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2015, 10:29 + schrieb Pete Biggs: > > > > I tried offlineimap, and it clearly downloaded all messages from all my > > accounts. It seems a much better way of making backups. >

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I tried offlineimap, and it clearly downloaded all messages from all my > accounts. It seems a much better way of making backups. Evolution is a mail client, it's not designed to make backups of your remote mail - being able to download and make local copies of messages is only for convenien

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-21 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 23:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I also don't understand how you can have messages which have not been > downloaded but are nevertheless not new. Can you explain what you mean? They are messages I received from people weeks or months ago. I read them via webmail. Evolut

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 18:52 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 17:35, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Do you regularly access the same account from some other client? I'm > > trying to understand why some emails are not new but have not previously > > been downloaded. > > Evol

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 17:35, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Do you regularly access the same account from some other client? I'm > trying to understand why some emails are not new but have not previously > been downloaded. Evolution has been installed today. I don't have other e-mail clients inst

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Mittelstaedt
Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2015, 13:01 +0100 schrieb Francesco Turco: > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 11:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 12:36 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > > > I have Evolution 3.12.10. I'd like to automatically download all e-mails > > > from my IMAP server ev

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 13:01 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 11:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 12:36 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > > > I have Evolution 3.12.10. I'd like to automatically download all e-mails > > > from my IMAP server every time

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 11:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 12:36 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > > I have Evolution 3.12.10. I'd like to automatically download all e-mails > > from my IMAP server every time I run Evolution, but the Send/Receive > > button doesn't do that.

Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 12:36 +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > I have Evolution 3.12.10. I'd like to automatically download all e-mails > from my IMAP server every time I run Evolution, but the Send/Receive > button doesn't do that. It just downloads new e-mails, not old ones. I > need this for backup

[Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

2015-01-20 Thread Francesco Turco
I have Evolution 3.12.10. I'd like to automatically download all e-mails from my IMAP server every time I run Evolution, but the Send/Receive button doesn't do that. It just downloads new e-mails, not old ones. I need this for backup reasons. I read somewhere I have to use OfflineIMAP together with