This is why my "delete" action moves the email to a trash folder. That way I can always go undelete if needed. I don't purge my trash (ever, at least not so far!), but I do permanently delete certain emails that I know I'll never want to see again (of course, sometimes I make a mistake, but...).
Right now my Trash folder for my personal IMAP account (with fastmail) has over 30,000 messages in it. If it ever really gets too big, I'll move it to a new folder name (Trash.old) and start a new one. That does bring up another would be nice for the list (for me): The ability to specify, on a folder-by-folder basis, how many days' worth of email to retrieve. Chatteremail on my treo did this, and it allowed me to go into my trash folder on my phone and only retrieve the last day's worth of messages (in the event I needed to undelete something while mobile). As it stands today, there's no way I could view my 30,000 message Trash folder on my Pre, so if I have to undelete I have to either wait till I get to my desktop or use the browser interface to fastmail from my pre to do what I need to do. That works but it's clearly clunky... As an aside, for pure IMAP email, nobody beats fastmail. They don't do hosting, hosted exchange, or any of that, but man do they do email right! I've been using them for over 5 years, and I don't think I'd switch to anything else. Sam Don Ferguson wrote: > Yep. So add to the list: ability to undo a deletion in the email program. > Kinda basic . . . > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig > Froehle > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Marking email for deletion "trick" > > > > > > There's a patch that gives you a confirmation panel when deleting > individual emails (like when you delete phone numbers..."underneath" > the bit that slides off the screen are "Cancel" and "Delete" buttons). > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:43 PM, George Kontos <[email protected] > <mailto:georgekontos%40inficad.com> > wrote: > >> Craig, How do you undo a deletion? Or do you just mean that the deleted >> message is in the Trash folder and can be retrieved? >> >> George >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> >> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of > Craig > >> Froehle >> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:33 AM >> To: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> >> Subject: Re: [Treo] Marking email for deletion "trick" >> >> Yep....this very functionality is something I rely on regularly. >> Getting rid of the sales emails, random announcements, and other cruft >> quickly (at least relatively so) while still retaining the ability to >> undo an accidental deletion is invaluable to me. >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Levi Wallach <[email protected] >> > <mailto:levi%40dvdmon.com> > wrote: > >>> So since we've been talking about marking email for deletion in the >>> >> context of what we'd like for Palm to add, I tried something out I'd never >> done before. Maybe some or all of you have done this and it's obvious, >> > but > >> it wasn't to me. >> >>> It's in regards to the patch that allows you to confirm emails for >>> >> deletion, so if you don't or won't install patches, it may not be >> > relevant. > >> Essentially what I learned was that you can swipe to get the gray >> delete/cancel confirmation that replaces the message info in your message >> list, but once it's up, you can swipe additional ones as well! You can >> swipe as many as you want. The only problem is what happens when you >> > swipe > >> the second one is that the first goes away, and it actually gets deleted. >> In a way, it's not quite mark for deletion but rather a way to kind of >> disable the confirmation partially and when one wants to. So it's kind of >> > a > >> kludge and not exactly what I'm sure people would really want, but still I >> thought it was a nice find and a way to remove stuff quickly when my Pre >> isn't being laggy (and thus adding potential for unintended deletions). >> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
