Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail
- From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
- To: evolution-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:38:46 -0430
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 15:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
I'm not a great user of gmail - I have an account though - and my
impression was that there was no Trash folder - when you delete a mail
in Gmail it disappears. I certainly can't see a Trash folder. I seem
to remember there was a big song and dance when Gmail was created that
you had so much space that you need never delete a message again -
just
mark it that you don't want it to be seen - 'delete' always meant that
you never wanted to see the message again.
Gmail doesn't of course have folders, it has labels, which are not the
same thing. And one of them is Trash (just look a little closer
Pete :-). Nonetheless Gmail presents its labels to IMAP clients as if
they were folders so AFAIK the point is more or less moot.
Hmm. But when I delete something it never gets a trash label, it just
disappears. The same thing happens within Evo - I delete a message, it
gets marked as deleted, then quickly disappears.
I'm guessing that Gmail is "moving" it to [Gmail]/Trash, i.e.
relabelling it and removing the original label. That seems to be what
the help page is saying. Of course with a standard IMAP delete on a
non-Gmail IMAP server, there is no original label (it's just in its
folder), hence the apparent difference.
See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755 and
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892
So does this answer the OP question? When you delete a message using
IMAP it will be moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder because that's where
its label indicates it should be?
That's my understanding, based on the help page. It wouldn't be hard to
test but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :-)
poc
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