Got it! It was the "Apply filters to new messages in Inbox on this server" setting. I unticked it, closed evolution, deleted the "~/.cache/evolution/mail/XYZ/folders/" directory and restarted evolution. Now it does not download messages any more.
I would suggest this setting to be turned off by default upon creation of a new email account. That solves my problem, thanks a lot for your help! On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 08:15 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > Then I re-created my email account. I could see initially it was > > downloading a summary of all the messages, but now it seems it is > > downloading every single message. The lower banner says "Retrieving > > message '41785' in INBOX" and is just carrying on... I think it is > > indeed downloading all messages in my INBOX... > In that case some configuration is requiring the messages to be > downloaded. > > > > > > > > > I double-checked the synchronisation setting, and it is unselected > > (which I suppose is the default when you create a new account). > > > > Any other idea? > > > As Milan said there are some configurations which will require the > messages to be downloaded. Do you have junk filtering turned on? > What > filters do you have in place? Anything that requires Evolution to > look > in the body (or some headers) will trigger a download of the message. > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
