Re: [Evolution] mail staying in trash folder

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb netspace net au>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 08:24 +0300, K. Elo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2006-08-22 14:31 +0930, Iain Buchanan:
> > Hi again :)
> > 
> > I noticed that mail I delete from my imap account goes to the imap
> > "trash" virtual folder.  So far so good.  However, I have email's in
> > there from July - possibly every mail I've ever deleted is still there
> > (since installing version 2.6.2 of evolution).
> > 
> > Is deleting these emails supposed to be an evolution thing, or does evo
> > just mark them for deletion, and the imap folder handles it later?
> 
> Have You tried to expunge your folders (Crtl+E). This cleans out the
> trash bin and permanently removes all deleted messages.
> 
> There is also a configuration option (Edit->Preferences->Email
> preferences) for automating this task ("Expunge folders" or something
> like that).

that did it, thanks.  I knew the option was there somewhere... you'd
think after all these years of using evolution, I'd know that already...

cya,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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