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use offline mail in Evolution

Asked by Khalid Saadi

Hello everyone,
I have been trying to find out how to view my email when I am not connected to the internet, and I cannot figure out how.
When I am not connected to the internet, I cannot view my email, and I need to be able to do this. I figured out how to do it in Thunderbird without problems, but I cannot seem to find out how to do that in Evolution.

I try to "Automatically synchronize account locally" not working

also I try

To mark a mail folder for offline use,
1. Right-click the folder, then click Properties.
2. Click Copy folder content locally for offline operation.
not working
I am using evolution to connect to Gmail and I have Evolution configured as IMAP.
Thanks!

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Enrico Rosina (e-rosina) said : 		#1

Hello,

As nobody answered I will try a response, though I think that maybe many people could answer better than me.

IMAP is a protocol allowing you to keep your mail on the server, so that you can log-in from any computer to your provider and see your e-mail (without downloading it and without storing it to on your computer).

I don't really know how evolution is working with an IMAP connection. Maybe there is a cache on your computer which allows you to work also offline. But from what you ask it seems that it is not possible. So if your provider allows it, I would suggest you to configure your account with the POP protocol. Your e-mail would be downloaded and stored in evolution, and you would be able to see it offline.

Anyways, also with the POP protocol, you have an option to keep a version of your e-mail on the server, so you won't really loose comfort with the POP. You can check this option in the third tab when you configure your e-mail account in evolution (I don't know the english title of this tab, maybe "Incoming mail options"?) .

Hope this will help you, or that someone more entitled than me will give you a better solution :-)
Enrico

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Khalid Saadi (omanparts) said : 		#2

Thank you Enrico

but i deiced to shift to Thunderbird

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Jaap (ubuntu-fc) said : 		#3

But Evolution is still not keeping email when offline.
This click folder thingfor local email is not any more in preferences.