Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread bg
bg: > > So what compelling reason would there be for us to change to IMAP? > > We danged sure don't do any "sharing" with anyone else,and being  > > retired, foresee no chance that we ever would. So - IMAP - ??? Why? > >   Pete Biggs wrote: > The issue though is that POP was designed as a mail

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 11:14 +, Steve wrote: > As a quick update, it seems my server was configured for IMAP when I set it > up. Switched my accounts from pop, and working just peachy. Glad to hear it. [For future reference: try to avoid top-posting on the list as it annoys quite a few

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Steve
As a quick update, it seems my server was configured for IMAP when I set it up. Switched my accounts from pop, and working just peachy. Thanks once again. Steve On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 11:09 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 22:47 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Okay, Patrick,

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 09:05 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Besides, it doesn't explain the slow startup (TB startup as normal > > regardless of where the mail dir was), nor does it explain the > > addressbook issues. > > I thought I had in the first reply I sent you. It's to do with file >

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 22:47 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Okay, Patrick, > > I hope you'll pardon me jumping in to answer the question ... Not at all. Very complete explanation Pete. poc ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Steve
Thank you all, and particularly Pete Biggs for theee detailed explanation. I believe that TB simply creates a .lock file in the mail location and checks for it's existence, rather than using file locking itself. If migrating my pop server to IMAP is trivial then thattt's what I'll do. Thank you

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 04:26 +, Steve wrote: > Thank you to all who have answered. > > My problem is, 3 of my email addresses are on a private VPS located > in another country. The location itself is not so much of an issue, > but when I set up the server (dovecot/postfix) I only configured it