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Evolution 2.12 does not really love Gmail

The new version of Evolution included in the upcoming Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon has an annoying compatibility bug with Gmail. When you download your emails using POP and you interrupt the download before you got all the messages, Evolution will not show you the messages you have already downloaded, nor in the incoming folder, neither in any other folder.

The problem is that Gmail has its own way to mark the downloaded messages: while with a normal POP server the client is the only to remember which messages has been downloaded, the Google mail will mark any message is popped and will not propose it again next time you connect with your email client. So, since Evolution will not show you the messages you got during a pop session which has been stopped, and even it does know some messages need to be downloaded again, the only way to read those messages is to look for them in your Gmail Archive. Anyway, you can feel quite happy, because Gmail will not delete those messages. You only need to remember to check your archive on Gmail every time a download is stopped (e.g.. connections problem, your child saying “oh, what if I click here?”).

This bug has already been signaled to Launchpad.