Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
Oh, I meant to add that compacting is typically useful when record (email?) storage is in something like an mbox file -- it saves the need to rewrite the file each time a single file is deleted (for example). On the other hand, with storage in something like mdirr files (right name -- one email / record per file) it is not really relevant (unless those records / emails are indexed by some other indexing system that stores pointers to all of those records). In (older versions?) of kmail, with mbox storage, compactiing is necessary to reclaim unused space after deletions, and there is an option in the context menu for (most) kmail folders to initiate compaction. On Monday, May 01, 2023 08:45:15 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, April 30, 2023 06:24:14 PM Default User wrote: > > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? > > The definition of compacting as I "grew up" with it (not sure where I first > encountered it is the idea that in some applications, the act of "deleting" > something doesn't actually delete it from the file, instead it is marked > for deletion (and no longer visible to the user). > > Compacting actually deletes that thing, and shrinks the file to avoid any > wasted (empty") space previously used by those deleted things. > > I suspect I first encountered that back in the early days of DOS based > databases, even prior to dBase II. -- rhk | No entity has permission to use this email to train an AI.
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sunday, April 30, 2023 06:24:14 PM Default User wrote: > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? The definition of compacting as I "grew up" with it (not sure where I first encountered it is the idea that in some applications, the act of "deleting" something doesn't actually delete it from the file, instead it is marked for deletion (and no longer visible to the user). Compacting actually deletes that thing, and shrinks the file to avoid any wasted (empty") space previously used by those deleted things. I suspect I first encountered that back in the early days of DOS based databases, even prior to dBase II. -- rhk (sig revised 20230312 -- modified first paragraph, some other irrelevant wordsmithing) | No entity has permission to use this email to train an AI. If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma (and semi-colon) included at no charge.) If you revise the topic, change the Subject: line. If you change the topic, start a new thread. Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal documents excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including liberal use of whitespace (short paragraphs, separated by whitespace / blank lines) and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, and references. If someone has already responded to a question, decide whether any response you add will be helpful or not ... A picture is worth a thousand words. A video (or "audio"): not so much -- divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript and edit it to 10% of the original. A speaker who uses ahhs, ums, or such may have a real physical or mental disability, or may be showing disrespect for his listeners by not properly preparing in advance and thinking before speaking. (That speaker might have been "trained" to do this by being interrupted often if he pauses.) (Remember Cicero who did not have enough time to write a short missive.) A radio (or TV) station which broadcasts speakers with high pitched voices (or very low pitched / gravelly voices) (which older people might not be able to hear properly) disrespects its listeners. Likewise if it broadcasts extraneous or disturbing sounds (like gunfire or crying), or broadcasts speakers using their native language (with or without an overdubbed translation). A person who writes a sig this long probably has issues and disrespects (and offends) a large number of readers. ;-) '
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 07:38:45AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:24 -0400, Default User wrote: > > It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather > > than the mbox format [...] > I thought we were talking about IMAP protocol access to Google? In > which case Evolution isn't storing email in any format [1], it's > accessing it on a remote server [...] Oh, goody. I only brought mbox up as an attempt to explain how such a kind of unser interface (mark for deletion, then bulk expunge/ compact/whatyoucallit) might have developed. After that, users might expect that kind of interface regardless of the actual storage backend, so many mailers offer it. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:24 -0400, Default User wrote: > It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather > than the mbox format. I just ASSumed that it used mbox, since in Menu > > File, there is an option to save messages in mbox format. If > Evolution uses the maildir format, compacting apparently does not > apply, which would seem to explain it. I have not yet determined > whether Evolution uses mbox or maildir. I thought we were talking about IMAP protocol access to Google? In which case Evolution isn't storing email in any format [1], it's accessing it on a remote server. Evolution does have an 'On This Computer' email account, don't know what format it uses for that. In Evolution you can also create email accounts where email is stored locally in maildir or mbox format. I used maildir some years ago to have an email archive of some mailing lists. [1] Well, Evolution does cache email in ~/.cache/evolution/mail which seems to involve SQLite database and a file for each email. If you want to free that space you can just 'rm -rf ~/.cache/evolution' but I guess if you have 'download for offline use' configured or actually look at the remote email folders again it will re-download them. -- Tixy
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On 01/05/2023 05:36, Stefan Monnier wrote: According to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders This basically explains that compacting is an operation that should fundamentally be transparent to the user, and that Thunderbird makes the user aware of it for ... no good reason. This support page discusses behavior for local folders. This thread is dedicated to specific of Gmail and Evolution interaction in respect to IMAP protocols. I mentioned compacting of folders in Thnderbird because earlier I have seen that performing "Compact" in Thunderbird expunges messages earlier marked for deletion. Strike through in message list may be a sign that the message is marked for deletion. I expect that the following applies to message state on server, not to local folders: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3501#section-2.3.2 RFC 3501 IMAPv4 2.3.2. Flags Message Attribute \Deleted Message is "deleted" for removal by later EXPUNGE It is independent of maildir or mbox storage format of local folders or local offline cache of remote folder. Gmail may use internally some proprietary format that is neither mbox nor maildir, e.g. records in some database. I like that Thunderbird exposes the "compact" option to UI because I earlier used it to forced removal of large messages from server account with rather strict quota. Several times I used "undelete" to recover messages I deleted by mistake, so I like that messages just marked for deletion by default as well. The following is related neither to Evolution (at least directly) nor to Thunderbird, but still might be relevant: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-deleted-messages-when-using-an-imap-account-4559a297-4d46-47e7-bfbf-71287b1935ed If you use Google Gmail as an IMAP account, messages marked for deletion are permanently deleted from their original folder but may still appear there in strikethrough text. These messages are still recoverable because a copy is kept in the Gmail Trash folder. On 01/05/2023 05:24, Default User wrote: compacting does not: - delete messages - remove messages These statements may be confusing in the context of this thread. It is true that the action does not deletes messages if the user earlier has not requested removal. However in some cases it possible to undelete message before compacting, but not after. So it really deletes messages, perhaps hidden from UI (or displayed as strike through and still available).
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 20:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > > > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > > > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!) > > > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? [...] > > > If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the > > menu > > option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. > > Or > > for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There > > is > > also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. > > This is probably the intended meaning. For strange historical reasons > (mbox), reclaiming the space of a deleted mail used to be a non > trivial > operation, so the user interface separated both: marking single mails > for deletion and actually doing it (which went by different names, > like "expunge", possibly "compact" -- the latter reminiscent of > crushing > the holes left in a linear mbox). > > That user interface proved useful for other reasons (time for > remorse), > so it stuck, probably. > > So yes, wastebasket emptying is probably it. > > Cheers Hi, Tomas. Okay, it looks like Evolution does indeed use the MAILDIR format. See: https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/import-supported-file-formats.html.en which says, "The format used by Evolution (for local folders since version 3.0). There is no need to import Maildir files as you can configure a Maildir account in Evolution and point to the folder where the Maildir files are stored." And according to: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders MBOX is the default format, where all of a folder's messages are stored in a single file on disk. This is where the compact process is useful, and the purpose of this article is to explain how and why. Maildir is a newer storage format, where every message of a folder is a separate file. Maildir does not need compact, and so this article is not applicable to Maildir folders. So, apparently Evolution does not need "compacting"! BTW, interesting that Thunderbird seems to still use the mbox format by default, although you can apparently choose to store messages in either mbox or maildir format. Which is why they explain and offer the choice to users.
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
> According to this: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders This basically explains that compacting is an operation that should fundamentally be transparent to the user, and that Thunderbird makes the user aware of it for ... no good reason. Thunderbird will compact things for you as needed even if you don't explicitly ask for it, so you don't need to worry about it. Evolution doesn't bother the user with this, which is the better option. Stefan
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:26 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!) > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? Sounds like > 'compressing' > to me, don't know if protocols like IMAP has a way to ask the server > to > compress it's folders. (I would have though how emails are actually > stored would be an internal implementation detail of the server). > > If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the menu > option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. Or > for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There is > also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. > > You can also configure Evolution to empty the wastebasket after a > period of time, or as I have it configured, whenever you close > Evolution. (I've always hated the idea of Wastebaskets, if I delete > something I want it deleted, not just hidden and taking up space). > Hi Tixy. I don't know technically what "compacting" is supposed to mean, but just as a total guess, I wonder if it is something like the 'vacuuming" operation for databases. According to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders compacting does not: - delete messages - remove messages - compress folders Note that this just says that compacting improves performance. But I believe I have read elsewhere that not compacting regularly can have potentially dire consequences, such as corrupted email storage files and lost email messages. Also consider this: https://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com/2011/07/compacting-what-is-it-and-why-must-i-do.html So "expunging" emails may not be the same thing as compacting. FWIW, in Evolution I had multiple email accounts with more than 1,000 messages each, including one which had over 24,000 messages! Spending many days, deleting sometimes several hundred messages at a time, I have now reduced that to less than 6,000. No lost messages or file corruption yet . . . It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather than the mbox format. I just ASSumed that it used mbox, since in Menu > File, there is an option to save messages in mbox format. If Evolution uses the maildir format, compacting apparently does not apply, which would seem to explain it. I have not yet determined whether Evolution uses mbox or maildir. BTW, I also never did really like the wastebasket (recycle bin) concept, in any application program. After all, delete should mean delete, right? But I must confess that the wastebasket idea has rescued me more than once from a deletion by mistake, or when I have "changed my mind"!
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!) > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? [...] > If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the menu > option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. Or > for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There is > also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. This is probably the intended meaning. For strange historical reasons (mbox), reclaiming the space of a deleted mail used to be a non trivial operation, so the user interface separated both: marking single mails for deletion and actually doing it (which went by different names, like "expunge", possibly "compact" -- the latter reminiscent of crushing the holes left in a linear mbox). That user interface proved useful for other reasons (time for remorse), so it stuck, probably. So yes, wastebasket emptying is probably it. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!) What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? Sounds like 'compressing' to me, don't know if protocols like IMAP has a way to ask the server to compress it's folders. (I would have though how emails are actually stored would be an internal implementation detail of the server). If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the menu option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. Or for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There is also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. You can also configure Evolution to empty the wastebasket after a period of time, or as I have it configured, whenever you close Evolution. (I've always hated the idea of Wastebaskets, if I delete something I want it deleted, not just hidden and taking up space). -- Tixy
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 00:01 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > For those who missed start of the thread: it is dedicated to IMAP > access > to Gmail and Evolution behavior. > > On 27/04/2023 23:15, Default User wrote: > > It stays in both folders, with > > only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that > > is > > marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to > > "Trash", which remains empty. > > What will happen if you try to "compact" the "All Mail" folder? I am > unsure concerning precise name of such action in evolution. In > thunderbird delete vs. mark for deletion setting is account-wide and > can > not be chosen per folder. However even when "delete" is chosen, > messages > may be retained in folders till they are automatically compacted or > this > action is forced by user. > > > Moving the message from "Inbox" to another folder in the same email > > account, for example "Spam", DOES remove the message from "All > > Mail". > > That does not make sense to me! > > It is better to experiment with a custom label. Spam or Trash are > rather > special cases (perhaps on both sides: client and server). > > > I am reluctant to test moving a message from one email account to > > another one, as I do not do not want to have an another unexpected > > problem occur, and I do want to keep the email accounts strictly > > isolated from each other. > > Almost certainly messages may be deleted from web UI. Anyway a couple > of > test messages should not cause real mess. > Hi, Max. I can not seem to find any information about compacting folders in Evolution. Which is strange. In Thunderbird, you can manually compact folders any time, and it will compact automatically by default, with adjustable parameters. Perhaps Evolution considers "expunging" (actual deletion) of messages in the Trash folder, or otherwise marked for deletion (except in the All Mail folder), as "compacting". I sure hope that Evolution is actually compacting folders somehow, and just not bothering to explain when or how. Anyway, I think I have spent enough time on the Evolution All Mail folder issue. For now, I will just add one or more "Saved" folders, and pretty much just ignore the All Mail folder, unless for some reason I need to move messages from there to other folders. So, thanks to all who weighed in on the issue. (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in Evolution, I would love to hear about it!)
Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail)
For those who missed start of the thread: it is dedicated to IMAP access to Gmail and Evolution behavior. On 27/04/2023 23:15, Default User wrote: It stays in both folders, with only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that is marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to "Trash", which remains empty. What will happen if you try to "compact" the "All Mail" folder? I am unsure concerning precise name of such action in evolution. In thunderbird delete vs. mark for deletion setting is account-wide and can not be chosen per folder. However even when "delete" is chosen, messages may be retained in folders till they are automatically compacted or this action is forced by user. Moving the message from "Inbox" to another folder in the same email account, for example "Spam", DOES remove the message from "All Mail". That does not make sense to me! It is better to experiment with a custom label. Spam or Trash are rather special cases (perhaps on both sides: client and server). I am reluctant to test moving a message from one email account to another one, as I do not do not want to have an another unexpected problem occur, and I do want to keep the email accounts strictly isolated from each other. Almost certainly messages may be deleted from web UI. Anyway a couple of test messages should not cause real mess.
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 17:17 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 11:05 -0400, Default User wrote: > > Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no > > sense > > to me that Evolution could be designed this way. I see no good > > reason > > that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but > > not > > [Gmail]/All Mail. > > > > Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to > > another > > folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted? > > Or at > > least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be > > designed > > this way? > > I'd be inclined to blame Gmail's quirks. > > Personally, I've used Evolution since Debain 5 without issue, though > not with Gmail though. Well, except on a work laptop for a few months > until I realised it didn't behave properly (like hiding your own > mails > sent to lists) so I just set up a rule for gmail to forward all mail > to > proper IMAP sever (Dovecot) run by me and used that for work email. > > -- > Tixy > Hi, Tixy: It is unfortunately a well-known "feature" of Gmail: if you send an email message, it does not show up in your "Inbox". You have to look in your "Sent Mail" folder to see it. But hey, "It's not a bug - it's a feature!" Right . . .
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 17:26 +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > Le 27 avril 2023 Default User a écrit : > > > Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from Evolution users, to > > see if > > others experience the situation I have described. I would find it > > hard > > to believe that no one else on debian-user@lists.debian.org uses > > Gnome/Evolution on Debian Stable! > > I don't use evolution and I use pop3 to fetch mails from gmail. I > have > problems deleting mails from lists : duplicate mails are not included > in > fetch and have to be deleted directly on gmail. So I think your > problem > is not on evolution or imap, it's only on gmail... > Hi, Michel. Yes, it could well be. Gmail is Google, after all. As actress/comedian Lilly Tomlin used to say on the old American television show "Laugh In": "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company!"
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 12:15 -0400, Default User wrote: > > If a message is in both of the folders "Inbox" and "All Mail", it > > CAN > > NOT be directly deleted from "All Mail". It stays in both folders, > > with > > only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that > > is > > marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to > > "Trash", which remains empty. > > Well, one email can't be _in_ two folders. You can have two emails, > one > in each folder, and deleting one shouldn't affect the other. Except > you're using Google's Gmail where 'folders' aren't really folders, > just > tags applied in a database. Who knows how it's going to behave when > they Google maps that onto the IMAP protocol. > Hi, Tixy. Yes, I think there is never more than one actual message, there is just one message with one or more "labels" of virtual folders attached to it, until it is really deleted from Gmail's database.
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 12:15 -0400, Default User wrote: > If a message is in both of the folders "Inbox" and "All Mail", it CAN > NOT be directly deleted from "All Mail". It stays in both folders, with > only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that is > marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to > "Trash", which remains empty. Well, one email can't be _in_ two folders. You can have two emails, one in each folder, and deleting one shouldn't affect the other. Except you're using Google's Gmail where 'folders' aren't really folders, just tags applied in a database. Who knows how it's going to behave when they Google maps that onto the IMAP protocol. -- Tixy
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 11:05 -0400, Default User wrote: > Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no sense > to me that Evolution could be designed this way. I see no good reason > that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but not > [Gmail]/All Mail. > > Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to another > folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted? Or at > least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be designed > this way? I'd be inclined to blame Gmail's quirks. Personally, I've used Evolution since Debain 5 without issue, though not with Gmail though. Well, except on a work laptop for a few months until I realised it didn't behave properly (like hiding your own mails sent to lists) so I just set up a rule for gmail to forward all mail to proper IMAP sever (Dovecot) run by me and used that for work email. -- Tixy
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 22:25 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 27/04/2023 21:38, Default User wrote: > > "All Mail" apparently assigned to all messages > > Do you expect that deleting from "All Mail" removes message from > another > folder to which you moved it earlier? I am in doubts it should be > done > without a dialog to confirm such operation. However I just realized > that > thunderbird does it quietly. > > My impression is that deleting message from Inbox removes it from > "All > mail" (thunderbird again), however moving message from Inbox to a > folder > from another account removes it from Inbox, but not from "All Mail". > I > admit that such peculiarities are unavoidable due to tree vs. labels > concepts difference. > Hi, Max. If a message is in both of the folders "Inbox" and "All Mail", it CAN be directly deleted from "Inbox", which removes it from both folders, moving it to the "Trash" folder, from which it can be "expunged" ("Trash" is then "emptied"). If a message is in both of the folders "Inbox" and "All Mail", it CAN NOT be directly deleted from "All Mail". It stays in both folders, with only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that is marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to "Trash", which remains empty. Moving the message from "Inbox" to another folder in the same email account, for example "Spam", DOES remove the message from "All Mail". That does not make sense to me! I am reluctant to test moving a message from one email account to another one, as I do not do not want to have an another unexpected problem occur, and I do want to keep the email accounts strictly isolated from each other. I do wish that "deleting" a message from any folder would remove it from all folders. But, of course, a confirmation dialog before doing any deletion or expungement would seem to be virtually mandatory!
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
Le 27 avril 2023 Default User a écrit : > Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from Evolution users, to see if > others experience the situation I have described. I would find it hard > to believe that no one else on debian-user@lists.debian.org uses > Gnome/Evolution on Debian Stable! I don't use evolution and I use pop3 to fetch mails from gmail. I have problems deleting mails from lists : duplicate mails are not included in fetch and have to be deleted directly on gmail. So I think your problem is not on evolution or imap, it's only on gmail...
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On 27/04/2023 21:38, Default User wrote: "All Mail" apparently assigned to all messages Do you expect that deleting from "All Mail" removes message from another folder to which you moved it earlier? I am in doubts it should be done without a dialog to confirm such operation. However I just realized that thunderbird does it quietly. My impression is that deleting message from Inbox removes it from "All mail" (thunderbird again), however moving message from Inbox to a folder from another account removes it from Inbox, but not from "All Mail". I admit that such peculiarities are unavoidable due to tree vs. labels concepts difference.
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 09:22 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/04/2023 22:05, Default User wrote: > > it absolutely refuses to delete email > > messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email > > account. > > Disclaimer: I do not use evolution. > > Do you use IMAP for your gmail account? Notice that IMAP assumes > tree-like structure of folders and messages. Gmail uses concept of > labels, so the same message may have multiple labels. When mapped to > IMAP it means the same message (not a copy) may be accessed from > different folders. Moreover All Mail is a meta label/folder that > includes every message (besides trash?). I am unsure if it can be > reasonably handled using conventional IMAP. > > So gmail IMAP accounts may be special to some degree for mail > clients. > Perhaps some kind of cooperation between a mailer and the server is > necessary. I am unsure at which moment a message should completely > disappear from the server in response to removing it from particular > folders (actually labels). > Hi, Max. Evolution does indeed use IMAP. Unfortunately, I don't know much about email protocols. I am aware that Gmail uses the concept of labels, and that "Inbox", "Sent Mail", "All Mail", etc. are just labels assigned to email messages, with "All Mail" apparently assigned to all messages (except those with the "Trash" label). Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from Evolution users, to see if others experience the situation I have described. I would find it hard to believe that no one else on debian-user@lists.debian.org uses Gnome/Evolution on Debian Stable!
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On 26/04/2023 22:05, Default User wrote: it absolutely refuses to delete email messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email account. Disclaimer: I do not use evolution. Do you use IMAP for your gmail account? Notice that IMAP assumes tree-like structure of folders and messages. Gmail uses concept of labels, so the same message may have multiple labels. When mapped to IMAP it means the same message (not a copy) may be accessed from different folders. Moreover All Mail is a meta label/folder that includes every message (besides trash?). I am unsure if it can be reasonably handled using conventional IMAP. So gmail IMAP accounts may be special to some degree for mail clients. Perhaps some kind of cooperation between a mailer and the server is necessary. I am unsure at which moment a message should completely disappear from the server in response to removing it from particular folders (actually labels).
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 11:11 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Can't explain it, but it strikes me it's almost certainly a > permissions problem. > > Patrick > > > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM Default User > wrote: > > Strange . . . > > > > I run Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable, up to date, Gnome 3 desktop > > environment. > > > > I recently set up Evolution email. Works okay. > > > > Two days ago, I realized that it absolutely refuses to delete email > > messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email > > account. To delete a message in the All Mail folder, that is not > > also > > in another folder, the message must be moved into another folder > > and > > then deleted from there. > > > > I sure think I remember being able to delete directly from the All > > Mail > > folder when I first set up Evolution. > > > > I re-started Evolution. No change. > > I re-booted. No change. > > I did sudo aptitude reinstall evolution. No Change. > > I moved ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db to Trash, > > then > > re-started Evolution to construct a new folders.db file. No > > change. > > I did sudo aptitude purge evolution, then sudo aptitude install > > Evolution. No change. > > I moved ~/.local/share/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution, and > > ~/.config/evolution to Trash, then did sudo aptitude purge > > evolution, > > then sudo aptitude install Evolution. No change. > > I did some research online, seeking a solution, or at least a > > "good" > > explanation. No solution or "good" answer was found. > > > > But . . . then I booted into a Debian 11.6 Live/Install usb thumb > > drive, and then installed Evolution into the Live session, upon > > which > > Evolution DID allow message deletion directly from the [Gmail]/All > > Mail > > folder! > > > > Back to my regular Debian 11 Stable install. No change. > > > > It makes no sense to me that it would work from a Debian 11 > > Live/Install session, but not (currently) from a regular Debian > > session. > > > > Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no > > sense > > to me that Evolution could be designed this way. I see no good > > reason > > that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but > > not > > [Gmail]/All Mail. > > > > Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to > > another > > folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted? > > Or at > > least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be > > designed > > this way? > > > > > > Hi, Patrick. I don't see anything obviously wrong about the permissions on my computer. Not surprising, since I rarely change any permissions, and can't recall doing so where it might cause the condition in question. But I don't know what exactly to look for. Perhaps a directory that has extra or inappropriate read-only permission(s)? And I don't think that any permissions on my computer are involved, since the email folders in question are not on my local computer, they are on one or more Google server(s) elsewhere. I am just accessing them remotely, they are not downloaded to my computer. Possibly interesting note: The [Gmail]/Important and [Gmail]/All Mail folders both have listed in "folder properties"/"Labels" the Server Tag "$Phishing". No other folders do. But again, messages can be directly deleted from [Gmail]/Important folders, but not from [Gmail]/All Mail folders. So it probably doesn't mean anything in the current context. Well, anyway, do other Debian Stable Evolution users experience this problem? Or is it really "just me"?
Re: Evolution email (problem?)
Can't explain it, but it strikes me it's almost certainly a permissions problem. Patrick On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM Default User wrote: > Strange . . . > > I run Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable, up to date, Gnome 3 desktop > environment. > > I recently set up Evolution email. Works okay. > > Two days ago, I realized that it absolutely refuses to delete email > messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email > account. To delete a message in the All Mail folder, that is not also > in another folder, the message must be moved into another folder and > then deleted from there. > > I sure think I remember being able to delete directly from the All Mail > folder when I first set up Evolution. > > I re-started Evolution. No change. > I re-booted. No change. > I did sudo aptitude reinstall evolution. No Change. > I moved ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db to Trash, then > re-started Evolution to construct a new folders.db file. No change. > I did sudo aptitude purge evolution, then sudo aptitude install > Evolution. No change. > I moved ~/.local/share/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution, and > ~/.config/evolution to Trash, then did sudo aptitude purge evolution, > then sudo aptitude install Evolution. No change. > I did some research online, seeking a solution, or at least a "good" > explanation. No solution or "good" answer was found. > > But . . . then I booted into a Debian 11.6 Live/Install usb thumb > drive, and then installed Evolution into the Live session, upon which > Evolution DID allow message deletion directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail > folder! > > Back to my regular Debian 11 Stable install. No change. > > It makes no sense to me that it would work from a Debian 11 > Live/Install session, but not (currently) from a regular Debian > session. > > Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no sense > to me that Evolution could be designed this way. I see no good reason > that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but not > [Gmail]/All Mail. > > Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to another > folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted? Or at > least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be designed > this way? > > > >
Evolution email (problem?)
Strange . . . I run Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable, up to date, Gnome 3 desktop environment. I recently set up Evolution email. Works okay. Two days ago, I realized that it absolutely refuses to delete email messages directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder of any email account. To delete a message in the All Mail folder, that is not also in another folder, the message must be moved into another folder and then deleted from there. I sure think I remember being able to delete directly from the All Mail folder when I first set up Evolution. I re-started Evolution. No change. I re-booted. No change. I did sudo aptitude reinstall evolution. No Change. I moved ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db to Trash, then re-started Evolution to construct a new folders.db file. No change. I did sudo aptitude purge evolution, then sudo aptitude install Evolution. No change. I moved ~/.local/share/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution, and ~/.config/evolution to Trash, then did sudo aptitude purge evolution, then sudo aptitude install Evolution. No change. I did some research online, seeking a solution, or at least a "good" explanation. No solution or "good" answer was found. But . . . then I booted into a Debian 11.6 Live/Install usb thumb drive, and then installed Evolution into the Live session, upon which Evolution DID allow message deletion directly from the [Gmail]/All Mail folder! Back to my regular Debian 11 Stable install. No change. It makes no sense to me that it would work from a Debian 11 Live/Install session, but not (currently) from a regular Debian session. Even if it did not work from a Live Debian session, it makes no sense to me that Evolution could be designed this way. I see no good reason that messages can be directly deleted from any other folder, but not [Gmail]/All Mail. Does anyone have a solution, so that messages must be moved to another folder (if they are not also there already), just to be deleted? Or at least a "good" explanation as to why Evolution appears to be designed this way?
RE: [SOLVED] Re: Email Problem
-Original Message- From: Brad Rogers [mailto:b...@fineby.me.uk] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 12:57 AM To: Debian Users ML <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Email Problem On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:51:16 -0500 Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Michael, >Why is it we always miss what is blatantly obvious?? Because. ;-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" So true :)) We are the League, we are the anti band We're The League - Anti-Nowhere League
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Email Problem
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:51:16 -0500 Michael Millimanwrote: Hello Michael, >Why is it we always miss what is blatantly obvious?? Because. ;-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" We are the League, we are the anti band We're The League - Anti-Nowhere League pgpnXpLdyTCrW.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[SOLVED] Re: Email Problem
On 06/16/2017 05:37 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > Hey, folks, I've got a little problem with the email on my system. I'm > running debian/Sid, but the issue has been going on for quite some time > even when I was running straight Jessie. I'm sure it's a configuration > thing, I'm just not sure where to fix it. Here's the deal: > When I'm in Firefox browser and press the share by email button on > various web sites, the email client that pops up is always mutt (which > perhaps I should just un-install as I never use it). Mutt tries to go > through Exim to send the email, and I don't have Exim set up for > internet access (another issue that is on the to-do list for another > day). What I would much rather have happen is that the email client > that pops up be Thunderbird, which I use exclusively for all my email > stuff. Where is the setting that will change this behavior? I've looked > through all the alternatives, and they seem to be set correctly, but it > is entirely possible that I missed on. > Yep...I missed something. Of course it is the obvious!! I finally thought to check the preferences in Firefox, and sure enough it was set for mutt (the default). I changed it to Thunderbird, and everything is just peachy. Why is it we always miss what is blatantly obvious?? > As always, thanks for any help in advance. > -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray
Email Problem
Hey, folks, I've got a little problem with the email on my system. I'm running debian/Sid, but the issue has been going on for quite some time even when I was running straight Jessie. I'm sure it's a configuration thing, I'm just not sure where to fix it. Here's the deal: When I'm in Firefox browser and press the share by email button on various web sites, the email client that pops up is always mutt (which perhaps I should just un-install as I never use it). Mutt tries to go through Exim to send the email, and I don't have Exim set up for internet access (another issue that is on the to-do list for another day). What I would much rather have happen is that the email client that pops up be Thunderbird, which I use exclusively for all my email stuff. Where is the setting that will change this behavior? I've looked through all the alternatives, and they seem to be set correctly, but it is entirely possible that I missed on. As always, thanks for any help in advance. -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray
email problem with debian-users and my isp
I have no problem recieving debian-user. As of 2 months ago, I have been unable to send email to debian-user. I am using an alternate account to see if this account works. my friend said that mail.pipeline.com may be the problem. It may be on an RBL. It may be because it uses round-robin. Any info greatly appreciated. Email the list or at kmark at pipeline dot com for personal replys. -Kev __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: email problem with debian-users and my isp
Kevin Mark wrote: I have no problem recieving debian-user. As of 2 months ago, I have been unable to send email to debian-user. I am using an alternate account to see if this account works. my friend said that mail.pipeline.com may be the problem. It may be on an RBL. It may be because it uses round-robin. Any info greatly appreciated. Email the list or at kmark at pipeline dot com for personal replys. -Kev Hello Kevin, Looking fine from here! Maybe a config problem in your client? Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chartermi.net problem solved: was: continuing email problem
Just thought I'd send this in case somebody else runs into problems. a week without outgoing email from my cable Internet service and nothing but run-arounds!!! What was the problem? they are having problems with smtp.chartermi.net. All i had to do was change my smtp setting in exim to smtp.charter.net. No smtp authentication is needed. cheryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now fetchmail won't work!!! Re: chartermi.net problem solved: was:continuing email problem
changed from smtp.chartermi.net to smtp.charter.net. Now I can send but had to go to my shell account to fetch!!! Getting smtp transaction errors no matter where i fetch from. I wasn't supposed to change the pop setting just the smtp setting but now fetchmail won't work right. Is there a seting elsewhere than my exin.conf that needs to be changed? Cheryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Now fetchmail won't work!!! Re: chartermi.net problem solved:was: continuing email problem
fetchmail problem solved: called stupidity on part of user!!! I commented out the smtp auth lines since they aren't needed; accidentally had a 3 instead of a # in front of one line. Hence, exim config error; hence, no fetchmail. Sorry!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
continuing email problem: charter reply
first, I was able to change my ip back at least to a 24.xxx.xx.xxx by using dhcpcd -k and then rebooting. but it didn't solve the problem. secondly, now that i've uncommented and edited all of the auth lines (shown below) I am getting 'relay prohibitted. You are not allowed to relay mail rather than you should authenticate first. Obviously, all of these lines shouldn't be uncommented, but I continued to get you should authenticate first when I tried only uncommenting and editing cramd5. Third, I got a reply back from charter.net, also included here. I actually don't have a workstation so will have to clear that up. If this sheds any light on the subject, please let me know. Thanks. (inserts below). Cheryl lines from exim.config ((have removed password and username: tried username both with and without chartermi.net because they ask for full email address on website when signing in) remote_smtp: driver = smtp authenticate_hosts = smtp.chartermi.net # To use SMTP AUTH when sending to a particular host, such as your ISP's # smarthost, uncomment and edit the above line, and also the example # client-side authenticators at the bottom of the file # These examples below are the equivalent for client side authentication. # They assume that you only use client side authentication to connect to # one host (such as a smarthost at your ISP), or else use the same user # name and password everywhere plain: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN client_send = ^username^password # login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN client_send = : username: password # cram_md5: driver = cram_md5 public_name = CRAM-MD5 client_name = username client_secret = password email from charter: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 17 08:39:33 2002 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:24:54 +0300 From: Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: email auth problem Hello, on 17.12.2002 16:37, Cheryl Homiak at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am needing to know if you have recently changed your authentication setup. I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] but am using my shell email account because i am unable to send outgoing mail; incoming is ok. I have used charter with no problems for over a year until Thursday, Dec. 12. I am using linux, which I know you do not support, but i still believe you can answer some questions that will help me. First, I am getting messages back saying 'you should authenticate first. apparently messages are getting as far as the receving host and then relaying is being prohibited without authentication. Yes, that may be the issue - you need a mailer capable of SMTP AUTHentication, or the IP address of your workstation should be added to the Client Hosts lists on the charter.net servers to allow relaying from your workstation without authentication. Secondly, my ip address has changed racily recently. It has always before been a 24.xxx.xx.xxx address and now is a 66.xxx.xx.xxx address. I am wondering what might be the reason for this change and whether it has any bearing on my problem. I am of course exploring solutions on my end, such as smtp authentication. If you can tell me what the method and format of authentication is, that would help me immensely. AUTHentication in SMTP is described in rfc 2554. In addition, the charter.net servers may be configured to allow POP-before-SMTP trick (when the IP address of your workstation is blessed for SMTP relaying after a successful POP3 session to that server) - but you should discuss that with Charter admins. Thank you. Cheryl Homiak -- Best regards, Dmitry Akindinov === When answering to letters sent to you by the tech.support staff, make sure the original message you have received is included into your reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email Problem
Hi, Its so nice to be back in the land of the linux. I have been asked if it is possible to monitor specific outgoing email ? By specific I mean either from a specific email return address, or a specific IP number. We are using sendmail, SMTP, and POP3 It is easy enough to monitor the incomming by .forward to another account. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ian