Re: [Evolution] Demand Filter/Deletion Bug

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> I just added this to bugzilla and thought about it. This originally
> sounded like an excellent idea but I don't think it'd work because
> IMAP's EXPUNGE command will not let you specify specific UIDs to
> expunge...it works the same way Camel's expunge currently works -
> kill everything that was marked as deleted. This means that in order
> to do this we'd have to come up with an ugly hack that first
> unmarked the messages that were marked for deletion but not
> specified in the uids argument passed to the expunge
> function...expunge...then go back and remark them as deleted.

It's not *that* ugly. :-)

Also, if the server supports UIDPLUS, you can use "UID EXPUNGE".

-- Dan