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Bug 534729 - Evolution: Email messages deleted from POP server
Evolution: Email messages deleted from POP server
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 614388
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.28.x (obsolete)
Other All
: High major
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
evolution[pop]
: 602525 612962 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-25 06:50 UTC by gmac
Modified: 2010-04-01 03:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description gmac 2008-05-25 06:50:11 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I have Evolution setup on two machines, and this problem is the same on both machines. Both machines are brand new fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.04

I have setup a POP3 account in Evolution and checked "Leave messages on server" yet Evolution keeps deleting the messages from the server.

I have deleted the account and tried to set it up again and again but I get the same problem on both machines. Please help!

Steps to reproduce:
1. In Evolution and checked "Leave messages on server" yet Evolution keeps deleting the messages from the POP email server
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Actual results:
 Evolution keeps deleting the messages from the POP email server

Expected results:
I would expect my emails to remain on the POP server. This is a big problem as I have no backup on my POP3 server of my emails.

Does this happen every time?
Always.

Other information:
Comment 1 gmac 2008-05-25 06:52:01 UTC 
Please email me at geoffmak@gmail.com if anyone has suggestions how to fix this.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2008-09-28 21:46:19 UTC 
Well - use IMAP. This is really abusing POP, especially when using two computers to download.
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-08 04:08:37 UTC 
*** Bug 602525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-18 03:51:14 UTC 
*** Bug 612962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-18 03:51:54 UTC 
last dupe in 2.28.x
Comment 6 Milan Crha 2010-03-25 16:01:59 UTC 
This is working properly for me, I have a POP account, in "Receiving options" tab is checked "Leave messages on the server", and both "Delete after X day(s)" and "Disable support for all POP3 extensions" are unchecked and I can download my POP3 messages from multiple machines.

Maybe try to run Evolution as this:
   $ CAMEL_DEBUG=1 evolution &>camel.log
and see what it does with your server, whether it sends a DEL request to it or not. If you'll change anything in the account preferences, rather close evolution and run it again, to be sure your changes are in the effect.
Comment 7 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-31 03:43:56 UTC 
bug 614388 looks duplicate but that has patch to solve the problem.
Comment 8 Milan Crha 2010-03-31 22:17:36 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> bug 614388 looks duplicate but that has patch to solve the problem.

Yeah, I would mark this one as a duplicate of the newer.
Comment 9 Akhil Laddha 2010-04-01 03:26:21 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 614388 ***