On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 02:00 -0700, anders70 wrote:
> > The 'interesting' point is, that the older emails in the top part of
> > the
> > Inbox had already been moved to other subfolder a long time ago,
> > without
> > actually beeing deleted from the Inbox file.
> 
> As has had been said many (*many* :-) times here, IMAP doesn't have a
> Move operation, it only has Copy and Delete. Given that Delete means
> "mark for deletion, expecting that the user will do an Expunge at some
> time in the future", this explains why you still have old messages
> hanging around. Note that for consistency Evo uses this mechanism even
> when the folder is not on an IMAP server (Exchange may be different, I
> wouldn't know).
> 
> Get used to running Folder->Expunge (Ctrl-E) or File->Empty Trash once
> in a while. The former is per-folder, the latter is per-account. You can
> also set a Edit->Mail Preferences option to Expunge (Empty Trash
> Folders) when quitting Evo.
> 
> poc

Note that File->Empty Trash does not expunge maildir folders.  A CTRL-E
in maildir folders is required until this is remedied ( i am assuming
that Empty Trash should include maildir folders ).
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