Author: Tony Smith Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Evolution / Exchange - Missing messages
> Hi all, >
> I am trying to use Evolution to get my mail from an Exchange server.
> For a while all looked to be OK but this morning I noticed some mails
> had vanished from my inbox. Looking via webmail and Outlook I can see
> the messages are still on the server.
>
> I have tried a re-sync, tried deleting the account and recreating it,
> and a couple of other things but nothing seems to bring these messages
> back.
>
> Since the webmail interface is so slow and using Outlook means running
> WinXP under VMware wasting lots of resources I would really like to
> have Evolution work reliably. Anyone seen this kind of thing before
> and know how to fix it and prevent it happening again?
>
> I have thought of using other mail clients but I have to be able to
> manage my diary too.
>
> Thanks
> Rich
I was in this situation lately.
Is the POP3 interface running? The solution was to fetchmail it via POP to my home server then host it from there via DIMAP.
