Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.2.2 - odd behavior with Yahoo POP server

["Mark S. Warren" <mwarren acm org>]

Thanks for the explanation of POP3 - from that it seemed clear that OE
wasn't doing some magic unknown to Evolution, so I tried a small
experiment, sending a few test messages and reading them with OE and
Evolution.  Turns out, I was wrong, they ALL go to the Yahoo Trash
folder.

So apparently, (a) I just never noticed this strange behavior before on
Yahoo, and (b) as Guenther said earlier, it is apparently a gratis
"feature" of whatever mail interface Yahoo has behind their POP3 server.

I probably never noticed it before because, since my complete switch
from OE to Evolution, I've been paying more attention to mail issues
than previously.  While watching the results of my experiments on Yahoo
today, I noticed a little statement on one of Yahoo's mail folder
viewing pages that says "The trash folder is emptied periodically,
automatically."  So it appears the POP3 DELE/UPDATE action does not
really remove a message from the Yahoo Inbox, it just moves it to trash,
which is purged periodically, and entirely out of control of the POP3
client.

My apologies for the confusion, and thanks to Guenther for giving me the
right clues.

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:50, guenther wrote:

> Now I am confused as well. You sure, you aren't april fooling on us? Or
> maybe yahoo on you? ;-))

Looks like *I* am the April fool!  Oh, well, at least a more educated
one now.

> As the fetched messages are moved to a trash folder, there has to be a
> DELE command for sure. And POP3 does not offer more fine grained
> commands. You can't configure more, you have done all you can.
> ...and so on...
  ...
  ...
> That's all I can think of right now. And you are really the first one
> coming up with that strange problem...
>
> ...guenther
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Mark S. Warren <mwarren acm org>