> Thanks for the explanation of POP3 - from that it seemed clear that OE > wasn't doing some magic unknown to Evolution, so I tried a small > experiment, sending a few test messages and reading them with OE and > Evolution. Turns out, I was wrong, they ALL go to the Yahoo Trash > folder.
Um, the missing first question I never asked... :-/ > So apparently, (a) I just never noticed this strange behavior before on > Yahoo, and (b) as Guenther said earlier, it is apparently a gratis > "feature" of whatever mail interface Yahoo has behind their POP3 server. > > I probably never noticed it before because, since my complete switch > from OE to Evolution, I've been paying more attention to mail issues > than previously. While watching the results of my experiments on Yahoo > today, I noticed a little statement on one of Yahoo's mail folder > viewing pages that says "The trash folder is emptied periodically, > automatically." So it appears the POP3 DELE/UPDATE action does not > really remove a message from the Yahoo Inbox, it just moves it to trash, > which is purged periodically, and entirely out of control of the POP3 > client. DELE command (action, if you wanna) Update is just a state, that cannot directly be triggered Hey, I just learned the last bits about that topic, so let us be precise. ;-) > My apologies for the confusion, and thanks to Guenther for giving me the > right clues. Your welcome. It was quite a bit of fun, actually... > Looks like *I* am the April fool! Oh, well, at least a more educated > one now. At least, that let me dig again through the POP3 protocol... ...guenther unrelated footnotes: [1] http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/04/01/0332202.shtml?tid=156 [2] http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/01/0218226.shtml?tid=172&tid=156 [3] ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt [4] http://www.thinkgeek.com/default.asp -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
