In the Account Info box that comes up from "get info" on clicking the
"shortcuts for commonly used actions" symbol at the bottom left of
Mail main window, it has instructions you can put for "sent', "junk"
and "Trash". What exactly does "Erase" mean? When you delete (erase?)
things generally, they go into the Trash in Mail?(this is a different
trash to the real OS Trash I assume?). To delete (erase?) things from
the Trash you delete (erase?) again. The terminology is crazy.
Let us suppose for a mo that when you set the Sent and/or Junk to be
erased on a schedule, it goes to the Trash. (I assume it does?). The
Trash has options too, you can "Erase" "deleted" messages on a
schedule. In addition here is a box which if you tick it will "Move
deleted messages to a separate folder" - which folder, where? No
provision there to set the folder?
The concept of move is simple: move from one folder to another, the
concept of delete or erase should not be so ambiguous, it should mean
"kill the godamn thing and send it to oblivion, not even purgatory,
to nothingness".
Just look again at the Trash options (last on the Account Info Box):
I can see that Erase when "One week old" means piss all off
completely. But if you tick the box to "Move deleted messages to a
separate folder" you are not erasing at all, not in any normal sense.
You are moving the messages. The underlying options are really good
and sensible as far as I understand them, but they are not well layed
out and described. The logic and terminology get a bit confusing.
David Elmo
(Alice in Wonderland, David in Appleland)
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