On February 25, 2019 3:10:05 AM MST, Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 16:54 -0700, Zan Lynx
>
>No, this is not how Evolution Trash works.
>
>The fundamental model in Evolution follows the IMAP paradigm, in which
>deleted messages are merely marked for deletion, not removed. Actually
>removing them is called "expunging". In the Evo interface the Trash
>folder is a search folder by default, so the "deleted" messages stay in
>their original folders but are merely marked for deletion. Toggle the
>View->Show Deleted Messages option to see them.
As a system administrator in a past life I would have "cleaned" user's Trash
folders in Exchange without a second thought.
As a programmer writing, say, online backup software I would not save files or
email in a Trash folder anymore than I would save temporary or cache files.
If I ran an online IMAP server, which I do for myself, it would automatically
purge deleted messages older than a month.
So Evolution *does* work that way. Because it marks a Deleted flag and that
flag does whatever the server side decides to do.
By no definition of the word "Deleted" does it mean "Keep this until I come
back for it."
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