[KLUG Members] evolution quirk

[Chester Wisniewski]

John Pesce wrote:

>I'm using Evolution 2.2 and I have a POP mailbox for work. I use
>Evolution at home, with the leave on server option, to archieve my
>email.  I also use Evolution at work normally to check and send through
>out the day. At work I also have the leave on server option so that the
>ones I want to keep at the end of day I can archieve at home.
>
>This causes a problem in that my emails never get removed from my POP
>mailbox. In Outlook there is a option to delete messages from server
>when they are deleted from my trash at work. Now that I'm using
>Evolution at work I don't seem to have that option. I can't find any
>work arounds on the Evolution site. Does anyone have a solution to this
>delima? 
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Does your work support IMAP connections? IMAP is designed for the use 
case you are presenting. Its really a hack to make POP3 do this in the 
first place. You can check to see if you can access port 143 on their 
mailserver from home (telnet myworksite.com 143).


Chet