Re: [Evolution] imap trash folder

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> There really isn't a "standard IMAP trash folder" thing.

Hmm... yes, I suppose the IMAP standard doesn't require a trash folder.

> We use a virtual Trash folder, but we might add support for a physical
> trash folder for maybe 1.2 or 1.4 or something.

I looked at how virtual folders worked and it appears that -- if they 
are to emulate the function of an IMAP trash folder -- they would 
require you to leave all delete-marked email in your inbox without doing 
an expunge.  Am I right about that?

There are a couple of disadvantages to this.  First, IMAP downloads 
would be very slow, since you'd need to download all those unexpunged 
headers every thime you log on.  Second, a different IMAP mailer on a 
different machine, say emacs or outlook, won't know anything about evo's 
virtual folder; all it could do is to look at the unexpunged email. 
That's undesirable since a user would need to scroll through a mix of 
new and old deleted stuff.  This would also create a potential for error 
since other IMAP mailers may be set up to automatically move 
delete-marked email to an IMAP trash folder.  In fact, even if you're 
always using evo, I don't understand how evo's on different machines 
could  know about each other's virtual folders.

Seems like most IMAP users will be on multiple machines and many of them 
 will be using multiple IMAP mailers (my case).  Virtual folders seem 
best suited to the case where you're always using the same machine and 
mailer.

Am I understanding this correctly?  Any chance that a true IMAP trash 
folder could be implemented sooner than 1.2 or 1.4?

Thanks,

Scott


> Jeff
>
> On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 07:34, Scott Otterson wrote:
>
> > I'd like to automatically store deleted messages in an IMAP trash folder 
> > (like with most IMAP mailers).  Is this currently possible?  Is it planned?
> >
> > I dial in from many different computers so local trash folder storage 
> > isn't an option.  Leaving a bunch of unexpunged email in my inbox also 
> > isn't desirable because it makes downloads painfully slow.  Manually 
> > moving individual mail messages to an IMAP trash folder is also slow and 
> >  cumbersome.  So, I'd really like to see the standard IMAP trash folder.
> >
> >
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