[KLUG Members] evolution quirk

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:45 -0500, 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? 

I'd check and see if they have IMAP support.  Using POP to accomplish
this is quite a hack.  Another alternative is to download the POP mail
with fetchmail,  it might have the feature you want (it has lots of
odd-ball features).