Evolution

[R S Gill]

Hi again Marc,

Well thanks for your help.

It's just a shame that Evolution isn't more flexible when it comes to 
IMAP mail.

Gill

Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:

>I just read the help section and it says it only puts them in the junk
>folder.  Thats spam I'm talking about.
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>Regarding the mail folder yeah I agree with you I have to manually
>transfer it to my sent folder since I used to use webmail only.
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>You can just set it so it empties trash on exit however I'm assuming
>because you keep the mail you don't wanna do that straight away.
>
>
>HTH
>Marc
>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:14 -0500, R S Gill wrote:
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>>Hi Marc,
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>>Let me clarify.
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>>I get my e-mail off of an IMAP server. To access e-mail, I can either 
>>use an e-mail client or a web interface provided by the university.
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>>In Thunderbird, I have the spam filter setup up in such a way that if I 
>>mark mail as spam, Thunderbird will analyze the mail and then move it to 
>>a folder called Spam that I created in my e-mail account.
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>>I have Thunderbird setup in this manner to avoid having to wade through 
>>spam when I have to access my mail from the web interface.
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>>With Evolution, mail marked as spam is moved to a virtual folder called 
>>Junk. Unless I can make Evolution move the spam to a real folder, I will 
>>continue to see all the spam that Evolution caught in my Inbox.
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>>In Thunderbird the whole operation is very seamless. I just select the 
>>mail I deem to be spam and click on the Spam button and the spam is 
>>cleared from my Inbox. Any spam that Thunderbird catches through its 
>>trained spam filter is automatically moved to my Spam folder without any 
>>intervention on my part.
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>>In addition, I am also noticing that Evolution moves mail that I delete 
>>to a virtual folder called Trash. Again I would like a way to move 
>>deleted mail to a real folder. When I delete mail using Evolution, the 
>>deleted mail persists in my Inbox. This makes it tedious to get to my 
>>unread/important mail when I access my e-mail account via the web 
>>interface. The only way around this is to expunge my deleted mail using 
>>Evolution. While this may work for some, I personally like having access 
>>to my deleted mail for at least a few days after I have deleted it.
>>
>>Another thing that I would like to know how to do with Evolution is to 
>>make my IMAP account the default. I'm noticing that each time time I 
>>start Evolution, the unconfigured Local Folders account is expanded 
>>instead of my configured IMAP account.
>>
>>Gill
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