On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:46 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 04:36, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > When I delete an email that's sitting in one of my folders, where
> > > > is it supposed to go?
> > > > "haggis imap"/INBOX/Trash
> > > >   or
> > > > "haggis imap"/Trash ??
> > > It should only go to the last.  UNLESS, and this is quite possible,
> > > your server is doing something stupid like physically moving deleted
> > > folders.
> > 
> > Ok (maybe).  I've disabled Hide Deleted Messages.
> > 
> > 1. When I delete emails from INBOX/foo, the emails "stay" in the
> >    INBOX/foo mail list, but with the "strikeout" font property.
> > 2. They appear in Trash, also with the "strikeout" font property.
> >    So far, so good!
> > 3. I do Actions->"Empty Trash"
> > 4. The emails appear in INBOX/Trash!!!
> > 5. I delete the emails sitting in INBOX/Trash.  The same happens
> >    to them as happened in steps 1 & 2.
> > 6. I do Actions->"Empty Trash", again.  Finally, the emails are gone.
> 
> it sounds to me like your IMAP server is setup to move messages to its
> own Trash folder when they get either marked for deletion or else
> expunged (not clear which it is) from the original folder.
> 
> Since this is not part of the IMAP specification, I would have to say
> "broken server" :-)
> 
> This is not something that Evolution is doing, it only knows about one
> of the 2 trash folders.

Thanks, but I do think this is an Evo issue, since I've been running
courier-imap 3.0.3 for a while now, and Delete/"Empty Trash" worked
fine (i.e. as I expected it should) in Evo 1.4.x.

-- 
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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