Evolution : managing two POP accounts ???

[Nathan Howell]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:37:04 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> I just changed ISP, and been given a new e-mail address.
> 
> I easily created a new POP account in Evolution, but problem : look at the
> pic attached, it did not create new folders to go with the new account !
> :-O So all the incoming mail gets mixed into the same inbox, what a mess !
> 
> What's going on... :-(
> 
> My new ISP lets me the choice between an IMAP and POP account (but the old
> one is POP only).
> 
> Should I use IMAP (whatever that is) or the POP ? Can two POP accounts
> work along nicely (Evolution didn't complain about it), or should I use
> IMAP for the second account ?
> What's IMAP for ? What's the difference with POP ?

IMAP and POP are just two different ways of getting mail. With POP,
you connect to the server and download your mail to your local machine.
With IMAP, all the mail stays on the server. IMAP is useful when you are
going to need to access your email from multiple computers, or when using
a webmail setup.

AFAIK, Evolution will handle as many POP accounts as you need. Since it
just downloads the mail to your PC, it simply dumps all the mail into the
local Inbox, unless you set it up to do otherwise with filters and such. I
haven't used POP in some time, so I don't know if you can set each POP
account to download to a different folder in Evolution...

Nathan