On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 15:08 US/Central, Bob Bell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:09:12PM -0500, Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:IMAP has no concept of "moving" mail, only "copying" mail.
Thus, a "move" really is (copy+delete).
I suppose smarts could be put in the IMAPd such that if a message has
just been copied from folder A to folder B and then deleted from folder
A that it won't put it in the Trash folder, but honestly, I think that
quite a few people would find that unintuitive considering past
(expected) behaviors.
Hrm, that's what I was afraid of. For now, my solution is to use 'formail -D' from a cron job to delete duplicate messages in my Trash. If anyone has a better solution, please let me know.
Okay, maybe I'm just dense or something... but could you explain to me what exactly about this situation actually *needs* a solution, from your point of view.
I mean, to me... in my (perhaps limited??) world-view... The extra copy of the message is just a piece of trash. And -- wonder of wonders! -- that's just where it ends up: in the trash.
So, what am I missing that makes this a problem?
Well, I wasn't going to bother everyone with my specifics, but since you asked... For one, the extra piece of mail is, well, extra. It's taking up extra disk space sitting in the Trash folder. I keep my Trash around for a long time, so it'll eat up disk space for a while.
That's mildly annoying, but not my real motivation. What's most important to me at the moment is filtering out spam. To do that, I'd like to keep around a corpus of spam and "ham". Trash *should* be a good place to find ham. However, whenever I move missed spam from my Inbox to my Spam folder, the semantics of IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH toss a copy of that spam into my Trash folder, thereby contaminating it as a potential respository of ham. I'd like to be able to move a message from my Inbox to my Spam folder without it landing in Trash, but still keep the notion that mail that I specifically delete winds up essentially archived in Trash.
-- Bob Bell
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