Karl Davenport put forth on 9/22/2010 11:24 AM: > Running Dovecot version 1.0.10 on Ubuntu Server 8.04 amd64 (ext3). > > Some users have emails that will not go away. They delete them and the > message is moved to the trash folder only to reappear when the mailbox > is refreshed. Moving the message manually to another folder has the > same effect. We are running Thunderbird as our email client, though I > have tried using other clients to remove the messages.
IIRC, by default, Thunderbird only performs expunge and trash folder emptying upon exit (though it's configurable with a check box), so anything in the trash will be there until closing TB. If you'd like emails to be deleted immediately, set "When I delete a message:" to "Remove it immediately" in the "Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings" tab _instead of_ "Move it to this folder [Trash]". Also, worthy of note, is that TB's "Trash" is a local folder by default, NOT an IMAP folder. So if the trash isn't emptying properly, it can't be a Dovecot issue, as the Trash folder is on the local hard disk (unless some genius admin relocated everyone's Trash folder to IMAP storage or a network share via some ill advised group policy etc). -- Stan
