On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 16:36 -0400, Donald Buchan wrote:
Friday and Saturday I was cleaning through my email inbox, triaging
various accumulated emails to the trash and various subfolders, such
as "such&such's wedding", "emails regarding the cottage",
etc. I
began suspecting that the occasional email was just "disappearing"
when I made transfers to other folders, as in of four consecutive
emails I would select three, with one in between unselected, make the
transfer, and find that the unselected email would have disappeared.
Initially I just lazily allowed for the possibility that somehow it
had gotten transferred to the subfolder, and I wasn't too interested
in confirming either way.
Wondering if it's simply "not showing" read messages (in the same way
that you can "hide" messages flagged for deletion, but not yet
expunged). Have a look through your display/filtering options.
The other thing is, perhaps, how your message lists are sorted. If you
remove a message, you may end up with evolution re-arranging the order
it lists things in.
Evolution has a lot of quirks/annoyances, though I persevere with it for
being the least-worst client I've tried. Most clients, that I've
experimented with, fail the absolute basics, such as being able to reply
without mangling the quoted text in horrible ways.
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.