Maybe I misread what you said before then. So, will there be a default behavior for this if the person didn't configure the client with a trash folder?
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:02:28 +0100, Thomas Bruederli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dean Jones wrote: >> These are my points exactly. >> >> What is the problem with automatic deletion (delete then expunge) if > they don't have a trash folder? Maybe they don't have a trash folder on > purpose? Maybe they want automatic deletion? Who knows... I think it's > safer to leave out automatic creation of any folder. Thunderbird does in > fact do this but I think it's incorrect. Doesn't anyone read or pay > attention to the Unix philosophy anymore?! :) > > As I mentioned before, this should be up to the admin who sets up > RoundCube. If the server/webmail admin decides to use a folders named > "Trash" then the webmail should do exactly what it is told to do. > There's a little difference between common mail clients that every user > sets up on his home computer and a central webmail service. If you're > working in a bug company the mail client is set up and configured by the > sysadmin and you usually have to accept the configuration of your > environment and most people (users) don't care about it. > > Hotmail, GMX and Yahoo mail act the same way. I agree that having 5 > different trash folders is not nice and that's the reason why the name > of the Trash can be configured and it will appear in the selected > localization without creating a folder named "Muelleimer" on the server. > > Regards, > Thomas >> >> >> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:55:00 +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:46:45AM +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote: >>>> After following this thread a while, here are my 2 cents about this: >>>> I admit that the current behavior is not right because deleting can >>>> fail. The patch submitted by Jacob would solve this and that's what > IMO >>>> should happen. Choice is good, I agree, but I'm not sure how many of > the >>>> "dummy" users have ever seen the settings for deleting messages in > their >>>> mail client. The number of configuration parameters an end-user has to >>>> deal with should be kept low. >>> A customer just had a problem last week when he was not able to delete >>> mails too. In his case there was a Trash folder, but he was not >>> subscribed to it. >>> >>> I am not sure if I like an automatic creation of the "Trash" folder. >>> At least my dad does not know what "Trash" is anyway - he'd want to > have >>> "Muelleimer" perhaps. And while talking about the languages... I've >>> seen people with 4 or more "Trash" folders, because different clients >>> used different naming themes. >>> >>> So having another one added automatically because it's not there is not >>> what I'd like. Please allow people to choose one or allow immediate >>> deletion... >>> >>> Balu >> >>
