Thanks for your responses.
I have had a look in Outlook, and once you have deleted messages there is
a "purge deleted emails" option in the menus.
Unfortunately I cannot find an option which is an IMAP equivalent to
"empty deleted folder on exit".
This explains the behaviour and I may write a macro to loop round the imap
folders and purge the deleted mails.
>>> When I have deleted mails via Outlook, the next time I go into
>>> SquirrelMail the "total" number for that folder is not zero, but
>>> the number of emails deleted via outlook. This figure remains until
>>> I view the folder in question and then click on "Check Mail".
>
> fj> When you click "Check Mail" in SquirrelMail the messages marked
> fj> for deletion is "found" and expunged thanks to the default setting
> fj> in SquirrelMail ("Auto Expunge").
>
> I believe that's correct. In the left frame folders list, SM 1.4.4
> displays the total number of messages and the number of unseen
> messages without considering if any messages have been deleted. I
> imagine it was done that way because the implementation path is pretty
> easy. It uses the IMAP STATUS command which lets you ask about those
> things but, alas, not about deleted messages.
>
> I think that's kind of unforunate behavior because most users are not
> going to think of it as a feature to be able to "undelete" messages
> this way in SM (especially if auto-expunge is turned on). They get
> that feature by having a Trash box and using it. Under those
> circumstances, a user won't think about deleted messages in a folder
> when considering its contents. All it adds is confusion.
>
> To get the number of deleted messages in a folder, you would probably
> use FETCH to get the message flags (for all messages) and add them up
> yourself. Depending on your IMAP server, the cost of doing FETCH
> might be the same or more expensive than STATUS, though the response
> size for FETCH will always be larger (a response line per message).
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