Please note that some webmail clients work with pop (and "leave messages on server" feature so You can pick them up later). When You delete from one of those...it's expunged, not deleted. A true IMAP works as decribed...
/A -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Leyland Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:27 PM To: evolution@lists.ximian.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Evolution] Stupid MUA Behavior (Trash) > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:09:16 -0400 > From: Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Stupid MUA Behavior (Trash) > To: "Jeffrey D. Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "evolution@lists.ximian.com" <evolution@lists.ximian.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > 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) I'm not entirely sure if you meant what you wrote there, or whether you meant that it's how all mail clients of an IMAP server behave. I'm still smarting over losing 11 days of mail through a combination of incompetence and unfamiliarity with an email client. When on vacation a few weeks ago I didn't have proper net access and was reduced to using a web-mail client to read my accumulated mail. I tried to mark and delete all the spam but succeeded in marking and deleting everything. There was no undelete function 8-( An urgent mail to my ISP's helldesk revealed that they considered a RAID array adequate backup. They were concerned only about hardware reliability and (apparently) don't take any precautions against software-inflicted data corruption. Paul _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
