Re-populate Mail Server Messages

Hello:

You can re enable that option by clicking Edit -> Preferences and under mail accounts click the mail account you need to modify and click on edit and under the receiving options tab Check the option " Leave messages on server" and click ok.. From the next messages you get, messages will be left on the server itself..

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

Hi Bhavani

Thank you for taking the time to assist on this issue - and yes you are correct once the "leave messages on server" is clicked on, any subsequent mails will be copied to Evolution and not migrated to Evolution. However in my setup period prior to the "leave messages on server" being clicked on - over 200 mails were migrated from the Server and now resides on my local machine so i cannot go through any previous mail messages via the internet (Unless they have just come in of course). Is there a way to get these Mail messages back onto the server easily. I don't appear to see any "Export" facility in Evolution and even so i would not know how to re-populate the server from this function.

Regards

Peemacgee

I dont think that there is a function which supports the whole transfer of messages from evolution to the server... Maybe anyone here can tweak it.. I am going to sleep now as its late night here.. See you tomorrow..

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

Can you change this so it does not show up and answered please.

The solution to the initial question could not be solved by a "Evolution" configuration change - the initial problem came about because i wanted to migrate my E-Mails from my Web-account to the "Evolution" program. When this is done using the setup feature and you forget to go into the advance tab and click the "Leave messages on server" option all your Mail messages are migrated directly to your local "Evolution" application and cleared from your Web-account and there is no way you can export them back without speaking directly to your E-Mail hosting company and even then the policy is "Sorry can't help you".

By default this "Evolution" program option should be set as "Leave messages on sever". I understand applications of this type all resolve the default as "Leave messages on server" unchecked - I don't really know why.

However this is as far as i am concerned a lesson learned - The tip here is "Read twice all the way through - action once".

Thank you all for their assistance in this matter.

Regards

Peemacgee

It's a bit late to help you, perhaps ;) but maybe someone else will find this useful.

You could 'bounce' all the mail to yourself again. When you use the 'bounce' button in your mail user agent, it is very much like the original sender puts in the address as a Bcc:. Of course, when you put your own address in for the bounce, it isn't at all like a Bcc :) but your MUA will re-send the mail to your mail transfer agent, and your MTA will re-deliver the mail to your inbox / maildir / ima4p / pop3 mail store, and then your MUA can retrieve the email again! It'll have a ton of extra headers showing the additional round trip, but the main parts that users typically care about will be unchanged: From:, To:, Cc:, Date:, Subject:, and the body.

So, simply select all the mail you want a copy of, hit your mail client's 'bounce' button, put in your address, and wait for all the mails to be sent/received again. (Yes, received again. Just delete the duplicates after bouncing them. :)

If your mail client doesn't let you select a few dozen mails and bounce them again, the mutt MUA makes it pretty easy. (Tag all the messages, then ;b.) Of course, you have to configure enough of mutt to know how to send email to your mail server, which mutt does not make pretty easy. (I mean, it's fine, but it sure doesn't have a wizard to guide you through the steps of configuring mutt to use a mail server. Also, it requires a mail server.)

Thank you for your continually monitoring of this problem.. I hope other individuals managed to avoid the issues this situation puts them in - if not certainly giving them to tools to overcome the problem.

Seth i believe this to be the only solution i can see that will return the Mails to the server environment.

Many Thanks

Peemacgee