On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:09 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 07:45 -0600, Jeffrey D. Means wrote: > > Why is it that when using Evolution as a MUA with IMAP when I delete a > > piece of mail I have to take a 4 step process to actually delete the > > trash: > > 1: Pressing delete places it in the Evolution Trash folder for the > > IMAP account > > hitting delete on a message in, say, INBOX, just flags the message as > deleted (this is how IMAP works, and in fact, all other mail clients)
True it does flag it as deleted but it places it in the Evolution/Trash folder under the IMAP account which you have to expunge to get the message moved to the Account/Inbox/Trash folder where you again have to flag it as deleted then expunge that folder to actually delete the message. I only found this to be true after wondering where I had tied up 500MB of space in my Maildir on the server I run. It turned out I had over 1 million messages going back over the past year that were flagged as deleted but not expunged from my IMAP trash folder. As I just proved that you really have to delete the message in a 4 step process as I outlined earlier. Also you have to expunge _each_ folder individually to ensure that the message really is removed from the folder not just marked deleted (this is probably IMAP standard behavior.) The software I am running is courier-IMAP with qmail behind it. > > > 2: Expunging the IMAP Account/IMAP/Trash folder moves it to my IMAP > > Account/Inbox/Trash folder > > no idea what you are saying here as this makes no sense. > > if you Expunge in INBOX (or whatever folder you deleted a message from), > it removes it from the server (and virtual Trash folder as well) > permanently. > > > 3: Deleting the items in the IMAP Account/Inbox/Trash folder > > no need... and in fact can't. a message in the Trash folder is already > marked as Deleted. > > > 4: Finally now I can / have to expunge the Inbox/Trash as well > > eh? the message was completely wiped from the server at step 2... > > Jeffrey D. Means [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owner / CIO for MeansPC http://www.meanspc.com/ Custom Web Development For Your Needs. (970)308-1298 - The stupidity of a stupid person is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent individual has a much broader diffusion, and far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise. - WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org - Fight Internet Censorship! http://www.eff.org = This is not about Napster or DVDs. It's about your Freedom. http://www.anti-dmca.org My Public PGP Key ID is: 0x81F00126 and available via: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x81F00126
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