[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Moving an email creates a duplicate in thetrash > folder (?!) > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:56:10 -0400 > >> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:37 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Could someone please confirm that I'm not losing my mind. I've >>> discovered that moving emails between folders in evolution creates >>> duplicates in the trash folder. Here's a recipe to reproduce the >>> problem: >>> >>> Take one fresh evolution installation version 2.6.3 on a clean debian >>> etch (no .evolution or .gconf/apps/evolution folders), start evolution, >>> create a new folder (call it anything you like) to archive your emails >>> into, then move the "Getting started" welcome email into your archive >>> folder. Check the inbox to make sure the welcome email is no longer >>> there, check your archive folder to make sure that the welcome mail IS >>> there, now look in the trash folder. There's a duplicate of the welcome >>> email. >>> >>> Huh? Is this unique to my parallel universe, or can someone else >>> reproduce the same? >> This is correct and is the way Evo is supposed to work. Briefly, on IMAP >> servers there is no "move" primitive so Evo has to copy the message and >> remove the original. "Removing" in IMAP is a 2-step process: mark as >> deleted, and then expunge the folder. This means you can undo deletes as >> long as you haven't expunged. >> >> The same may apply to Exchange servers; I don't know. >> >> In any case, all you need to do is periodically hit Ctrl-E (Folder >> ->Expunge) or File->Empty Trash (equivalent to Expunge on all folders). > > Thanks for that Patrick. Only one question: your answer talks > about IMAP servers, while I was originally talking about my > local (file) mail-store. Do you know if local (file) mail stores > are supposed to behave the same way?
It could be of course be done differently for local folders, but it would seem to be more natural to keep the same behaviour, in line with the Principle of Least Astonishment, given that Evo already does it for IMAP. However I don't really know the answer to this. Note that local folders are not all the same, since they can be (at least) mboxes (one file per folder) or maildirs (one file per message), and that could affect the answer. Why don't you experiment and tell us? > At least I now understand why I have up to ten (10) duplicates of > certain mails in my local folders - I've moved an important mail > into an local archive folder, later discovered that same email in > the trash (a duplicate, but I didn't realize that then), thought > "Shit, what's that really important email doing in the trash, > undelete it, quick" and so on, and so on. > > Now to spend a day or two, trying to work out how to get rid of > all my duplicate emails... :-( Evo has no tools for this I'm afraid, but several people have posted scripts for doing duplicate elimination. Google is your friend. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
