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Download old emails in Evolution

Asked by amirinamdar

Hi,
Am a little new to Evolution (an to Ubuntu as well) and I seem to have a small problem. The situation is the following:
I access my e-mail during the day via internet explorer (at work) - thus my mail gets marked as unread.
When I get back from work, I send and receive using Evolution. However, since I've already read mails on the internet, Evolution does not download the read emails. I'd like to be able to download the read e-mails as well, so as to keep all of them archived on my personal computer. Is there any way to tell Evolution to download read e-mail as well?
Thanks for all your help!
Amir

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#1

Well, I guess you would need IMAP instead of POP. IMAP always synchronizes your local mailbox with the mailbox on the server. What is your mail server? Does it support IMAP?

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amirinamdar (casaneva) said : 		#2

Thanks Bernhard! I'm talking about GMail. My only problem with IMAP is that it results in two sets of folders ('On this computer' and 'Gmail', for example) with corresponding sub-folders. If there is no way this can be done with POP then I guess IMAP may be the only way....?
Thanks for your advice.
Amir

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#3

Yes, I think you should try IMAP and see if it does what you want. As I said, it basically synchronizes your local mailbox with your server inbox. Gmail does support IMAP, you just have to go to "Settings".

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amirinamdar (casaneva) said : 		#4

Thanks! IMAP seems to be a fair trade off...I guess I will have to live with the two set of folders, or else, figure out a way to get rid of the 'on this computer' set of folders!
Thanks for your help!

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#5

Well, if you choose IMAP, then most mail clients (I use thunderbird) will let you choose between

1) "save mails locally" or
2) "do not save locally"

that means, you can choose if the mails are saved locally or if it downloads them every time. If you have a slow internet connection, it might help to save them locally since that speeds up your mail client.