On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:36 -0700, Zachary Taylor wrote: > I'm trying Evolution again after using Thunderbird for a while. Although I > see a lot of nice features I still have a big complaint that in my opinion is > a fundamental feature of an email client. In fact, it has existed in other > mail clients for a long time already. The feature that is missing is the > ability to delete emails on the server (pop, imap, etc) when they are deleted > within evolution. Maybe I'm the only one using this feature (even though I > doubt it), but I really miss it when I use Evolution and that is the main > reason I end up leaving after trying it for a while. It's annoying to have > to login to my email using a web browser just to delete messages that I have > already deleted in Evolution. Why use a mail client if I have to maintain my > server AND a mail client? It makes no sense. The last time I brought this > up a few people tried to tell me it has this feature, but it does not that I > can see. I see that you can delete message on the server after X number o > f days, but that is NOT the same. What I am talking about allows selective > deletion of messages from within Evolution that also removes them from the > POP/IMAP, etc server.
The default configuration for POP servers is to delete the mail from the server when you download it, so the question doesn't arise in these cases. For people who want to leave messages on the POP server (so they can see them from more than one place), I always tell them to configure all but one of their clients that way, and configure the remaining client the default way. Thus they have a copy of every message on one of their clients. IMAP of course has nothing to do with this. The model is completely different. I can see the value in being able to selectively delete mail from POP servers, but IMHO the solution is to use IMAP where possible, or follow the above advice where not. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
