Re: [Evolution-hackers] Feedback from Slashdot



Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 15:08 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > I fully agree with with the following two points:
> > 
> > 1. Evolution deletes mail by putting it into a virtual folder and hiding
> > the original message in your inbox. This is ok and seamless to the end
> > user UNLESS you happen to also use webmail. In which case your inbox
> > will be cluttered by messages you thought you'd gotten rid of ages ago.
> > The evolution team has flat out refused to address this issue and has
> > been calling this 'not a bug' (which is true) since 2001.
> 
> If the webmail system 
is displaying messages which are quite clearly
> marked as deleted, that's a bug in the webmail system.  If I delete a
> message in Evolution (which then gets striked out as I have Hide Deleted
> Message unchecked), when I view the same folder with Mutt the deleted
> messages are marked as Pending Delete.  Exactly what is expected.  If
> you want Evolution to really delete all pending messages when it quits,
> select Empty Trash On Exit.

I'm still using mutt because of this strange behavior.
I like changes to happen as I do them and not wait till the program
exits. (Do it asynchronously and 
use Maildirs if needed to have the
needed performance). Having history also saved to be able to undo any
change would be a killer feature.

> > 2. Same as above but for Junk Mail.
> > 
> > I use evolution as my primary email system but sometimes I have to use
> > webmail. When I do, all the nicely identified and hidden spam reappears
> > in both webmail and evolution.
> 
> From a guess it sounds like the webmail client is resetting flags it
> doesn't understand.  Again, the solution is to empty the Junk folder.



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