[Alpine-info] Vanishing Emails!

[Chris M via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:


> Messages do not necessarily "just disapeared into nowhere!" - they are just 

> hiding from you - unless you have a filter set to delete messages, rather 

> than moving them. If you do not have filters that delete messages, then, you 

> need to go looking for the missing messages, like looking for chook nests, to 

> find the eggs, when the chooks run free.

>



It was weird because Alpine was showing 7 emails and Fastmail webmail was 
only showing 5. I must of accidently "s" back to the inbox or something 
and it caused a double copy of the email. I do keep my web browser open 
and I check the Fastmail website after I "s" archives2024 just to make 
sure that the email really got copied to that folder. I am just nervous 
using IMAP, like I said in that private email to you yesterday, I've used 
POP3 all of these years and this is the first time I've used IMAP in a 
longggg time.

I've always used POP because I keep EVERYTHING, I hardly ever delete an 
email. I've had to have Alpine  make me a trash bin called "trashed" 
because when you hit "d" in Alpine, it doesn't move the email to the 
fastmail trash can, it just perm deletes them.

Then I told fastmail's website to empty that "trashed" folder every 60 
days.

I tried to set my account up as POP3, but I couldn't figure out how to get 
ALPINE to connect, it just kept saying " UNEXPECTED ERROR POP SERVER SAID 
+SERVER READY" or something to that effect.

Chris