Re: Evolution email (problem?)

From	Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Evolution email (problem?)
Date	2023-04-27 22:50 +0200
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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 . . .

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Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 17:20 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 23:20 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 04:30 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 16:40 +0200
      Re: Evolution email (problem?) Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-04-27 17:30 +0200
        Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:40 +0200
      Re: Evolution email (problem?) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 17:30 +0200
        Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 18:20 +0200
          Re: Evolution email (problem?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-27 18:30 +0200
            Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-28 19:10 +0200
            Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-30 17:30 +0200
              Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-30 19:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-30 20:50 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 01:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 00:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-05-01 00:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-05-01 06:00 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-05-01 08:40 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-05-01 13:30 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-05-01 14:50 +0200
                Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2023-05-01 15:00 +0200
  Re: Evolution email (problem?) Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-04-27 18:20 +0200
    Re: Evolution email (problem?) Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 22:50 +0200

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