[ale] Evolution anomaly -> newsgroup postings disappear, HUH ?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 7 14:40:58 EST 2006


I can't speak for Evo's newsgroup settings, but Mozilla's (?) at one 
time or another had an option to delete read items when shutting down. 
Evolution probably has a similar one.  Look under account settings 
and/or try right-clicking on each subscribed group.

Hth,

-Jim P.

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Evolution-2.4.2.1		
> 
> Twice this morn, once as root and once as a normal user, I created a NEW 
> news account in newly installed Evolution, subscribed to a few 
> newsgroups [as a test], which I then initialized with former group 
> postings from the news server.
> 
> I subsequently clicked on "retrieve new messages" and the original 
> initializing messages had disapppeared [thousands of 'em] and only the 
> newly posted were then present.
> 
> What's goin' on here, please ?
> 
> Thanks once more,
> 
> Courtney
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