On 26/07/14 23:33, Trane Francks wrote:
On 7/26/14 9:32 PM, Daniel wrote:
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Ahh!! So your "Expunge on exit" might go closer to "Compact on exit"
which is a feature that, I think, should be available for pop accounts,
but isn't!!
I don't think so, Daniel. 'Cleanup ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit' does
exactly what its meaning would indicate: Expunging causes messages
marked for deletion to be physically removed. The issue here is to note
that POP3 servers and IMAP servers operate rather differently. On an
IMAP server, /deleting/ a message only marks the message for _later_
deletion. With an IMAP account, when you delete your message in your
mail application, it's sending a message to the server to mark that
message for removal. It isn't done immediately, however; the actual
'real' delete only happens with expunging.
Compacting just happens to _also_ trigger expunging on IMAP servers
because cleanup is the first step in compacting. One can delete messages
without compacting, but one cannot compact without deleting messages
(that have been marked for deletion). Compacting and expunging are not
at all the same thing, although they are somewhat related.
I'm saying, on POP, deleting a message does not actually delete it, it's
just marked for deletion. It *is* actually deleted when the account
folderes are Compacted.
You, Trane, (I think), are saying on an IMAP account, a message is not
actually deleted/expunged, it's just marked for deletion/expurgation. It
*is* deleted/expunged as part of the expunging process.
You say "either", I say "either"!! Doesn't quite work in text, but you
know what I mean, don't you??
Cross-post and follow-up set to m.general.
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