Re: Delete from IMAP mailbox without transferring message from server?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

On 25/10 2001 23:24 M . Thielker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2001.10.25 23:13 Pawel Salek wrote:
>> (deletion) for message removal. The "move to trash" action is not yet 
>> optimized for IMAP, unfortunately.
> 
> None of the move options are. The only way to optimize "Move to trash" 
> would be if the trash can was on the IMAP server as well.
In my case it is, that was the whole point, really.

>  If Trash is a local box, it will always mean to transfer the message.
> Maybe it would be a good idea to have a prefs option: "Try to keep mail 
> on same server when deleting", that would automatically move the mail to 
> a "Trash" folder on the same server, if present, local mail to a local 
> trash folder, unless there isn't one, and the system default trash 
> folder if it cannot be avoided.
> I like to have "Trash" to recover accidentally deleted messages, but it 
> doesn't have to be a single folder, IMHO. I could live with having trash 
> folders on every server separately, I don't have to recover mail often 
> and the time spent searching through the trash on every server is less 
> than the time spent transferring mail from all servers to a local trash 
> can, especially when there are large attachments.
I fully agree with this.

- Toralf