On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 21:52:19 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 09:07:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Sorry gents, but this has nothing to do with IMAP: the phenomenon is > > purely internal to KMail. Besides, I only have POP3 accounts (which I > > suppose I could have said before but it didn't seem significant). > > Ahh! POP3 is just a bucket of messages. It does not have a concept of > mailboxes/folders (not on the server anyway). Local folders and messages > being dropped into them is a manual exercise by the user, or achieved by > client filters. None of this is duplicated on the server. > > When you download a message and mark it for deletion, it is not not > deleted until the server enters the UPDATE stage, when the client quits. > The POP3 server does not move the deleted message anywhere, in another > mailbox and it will not mirror any moves of messages into local folders > on the client.
Yes, of course I know all that. It's why I see the problem lying at KMail's door. > > Alan is closest: it's a matter of string contents somewhere in the KMail > > code. I just don't know whereabouts - nor do I want to fiddle around in > > the guts of the program, which is quite fragile enough already. One > > thing is being defined twice, or else it's defined once and only called > > in one of the two places where it should be, the other being hard > > coded. > > > > I've noticed both "trash" and "Wastebin" being used at different times > > over the last year, which hints at instability of program design and > > development management systems. > > Interestingly, my "Local Folders" contains a "trash" folder. I don't use > local folders (all my accounts are IMAP4) so I haven't paid attention to > this trash folder, or its name. I recall though that sometimes deleted > messages end up there, if the IMAP account is offline when I happened to > delete the message. From my failing memory I can attest this local > folder has been always called "trash", but I could well be mistaken. I wonder now whether it was worth starting this thread at all. :P -- Rgds Peter
