Hi, John. :-) On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, John Masinter wrote: >But I can not create a Trash folder. From reading the maillist, it >looks like IMAP reserves that folder name, and instead of moving >anything, simply marks the messages as deleted in place, where >they sit until expunged.
Actually the IMAP protocol only reserves the special name "INBOX". "Trash" is something client-specific, or in the case of Maildir++, "Trash" is reserved and has special semantics that aren't IMAP compliant, so Binc doesn't support the "Trash" folder. >The question is, if there is no Trash folder, then how can I look >at my list of deleted messages prior to expunging them? >If there is no method for this, then I assume that a work around >would be to create a new folder, say "Garbage" and tell my client >to move deleted messages to that folder. Then when I want to clean-up >that folder, I would have to manually delete the messages there. You are absolutely right. If you want this behavior with IMAP, the client should copy the deleted messages to Trash, then mark them as deleted in the original mailbox. It should hide all messages that are marked as deleted, and expunge them quietly. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
