On 24 Apr 2022, at 22:20, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2022-04-24 at 18:05:23 UTC-0400 (Sun, 24 Apr 2022 18:05:23 -0400)
> Mike Conley <[email protected]>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> I guess I was not so much interested in the peculiarities of the Xfinity 
>> IMAP server as I was in what exactly the trash can icon in the message list 
>> meant. Anyone know?
>
> It sounds like MM is marking messages as deleted rather than moving them to 
> whichever mailbox in the account is being used as the "Trash" mailbox. That 
> is an older model for how deletion is done in IMAP, but I'm not sure why MM 
> would do that for one account and not others or why it would show the deleted 
> but not yet expunged messages.
>
> I thought MM had a preference to use that method, but I can't find it at the 
> moment.

I know there are hidden preferences to control this behavior.  Here's what I 
set:

defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmDeleteBehavior -string "markAsDeleted"
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmShowDeletedMessages -bool YES

I've been using those settings for years.  I don't know if Benny ever made them 
available via the GUI.

BTW, I agree with Sebastian that this is the correct way to use IMAP, "older" 
or not. :-)

I have an Xfinity email account, and SpamSieve works perfectly well for me on 
that account, moving messages it thinks are spam to the "Junk" folder, so I 
don't agree with the hypotheses that this is an Xfinity issue.

-Eric

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