Again, as you noted - there are clients doing that, so this is not a technical limitation of the IMAP protocol. I admit I have not studied the RFC for IMAP, perhaps it says that the only accepted way to delete mail is to mark them as deleted instead of moving it to the Trash folder.
Be it this way or the other - please do not think of "technical arguments" as something old-fashioned or something that stands in the way of progress. What we need are well-designed and well-defined standards that would boost the progress. Now imagine how would modern email access look like if there was no IMAP nor POP and all the email providers created their own "user-friendly" protocol for doing that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Tieto, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13983 Title: Evolution virtual trash / "real" trash on IMAP server Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool: Confirmed Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Hi, This bug refer to the bug 12439 of evolution (http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6061). Evolution developpers don't seems to understand the importance of this bug. So, evolution being the main Ubuntu MUA, I think this problem concerne Ubuntu. I explain you quickly the problem : The evolution Trash is a virtual folder showing mails marked as DELETED on IMAP server. In a "one user" on "one desktop" and "one OS", it's probably a really good think for all reasons given by evolution team. But in my environnement : multiple user, multiple OSes, multiple MUA, ... it's a critical probleme. For security reason (too easy to definitively destroy a mail) user the MUA must copy deleted mail in a real Trash mailbox on the IMAP server. I can use another MUA like thunderbird, but I loose the really good integration of evolution in ubuntu. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/13983/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~tieto Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~tieto More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
