On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 14:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 18:31 +0100, David Jones wrote: > > Dear Group, > > My ISP has recently changed the method of sending and receiving mail. > > Mostly with no problem to me, just adding the SSL details to Evolution. > > I'm using Evolution 2.28.1 under Ubuntu 9.10. > > What is annoying is that I collect emails on several PC's, so I've set > > my preferences to not delete the mail from the server on one PC, but it > > still does. > > Anybody else seen this? > > I presume the option to leave the mail on the server is a standard > > option and not just something that microsoft dreamed up? > It's a standard part of POP, but of course the server isn't obliged to > keep your mail forever. You should ask your service provider. > The real solution to this is to use IMAP instead of POP. If your > provider doesn't offer IMAP, set up a Gmail account to access your POP > mail and configure your client to read IMAP from Gmail.
You can do the same with Fastmail.fm, and they support [they use!] Open Source software. <http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/personal.html> -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
