Re: [Evolution] IMAP Server disaster

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:15 -0700, marcello wrote:
> I'm trying to figure what happens if the IMAP server my account resides on
> crashes and the provider is not able to restore my folders contents.
>
> Having enabled the "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" option I
> have a local copy of all of the messages, but what happens when I first
> start Evolution after the server disaster and it synchronizes my local
> folders with the (empty) remote ones? I expect it to delete all my local
> messages (and obviously it is not what I'd like).
>
> Is this the expected behavior? 

I suspect only the developers know what it will do, so play safe and
back up your local copies before doing anything.

> And, if it is, how could I rescue my lost messages in such a case?

You can drag messages from local to remote folders.

poc