Re: [Evolution] imap: evolution and eudora; moving files to trash folder

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

The issue is that IMAP doesn't have a "move" command, so what Eudora is
doing is copying the message to your trash folder, marking it deleted in
the inbox, and then expunging all deleted messages from inbox. This is
why deleting any message from within Eudora will delete all of your
Evolution-deleted messages.

Evolution does things the way that it does because it's faster for the
user, because expunging the folder is potentially a very slow operation,
and.

There's currently no way to make Evolution do things Eudora's way. There
is a bug somewhere in bugzilla suggesting this though. You might instead
want to see if Eudora has on option to do things Evo's way.

-- Dan

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:36, Mark E. Walter wrote:
> Hi, I looked for this information on-line, but did not find anything. 
> Sorry if it is a faq.  
>
> I just set-up IMAP so that I can use evolution at work and eudora on my
> laptop (or any other mail client for that matter).  
>
> 1. if I delete a message in evolution, it just gets a line through it
> and it stays in my INBOX ... it is well known that this is how evolution
> handles deleted messages.  I can use "View" "Hide Deleted Messages" so
> that I don't see the deleted messages.  However, when I fire up eudora,
> I will see the deleted message.  In eudora the 'server status' flag
> indicates that the message is flagged for deletion.  This will leave me
> with an exceptionally cluttered view of my INBOX in eudora.  This seems
> like a good reason for having a deleted e-mail in evolution get moved to
> a different imap (trash) folder.  Does this exist?  From what I read,
> there was a conscious decision in evolution not to move deleted messages
> to other folders.  
>
> 2. From eudora I can move deleted messages to my imap trash folder. 
> However, a different problem arises.  For e-mail that I deleted in
> evolution (i.e., still exists in my evolution INBOX, but with a line
> through it *and* still exists in my Eudora view of INBOX with a 'server
> status' of delete), if I delete any eudora other eudora INBOX messages,
> the evolution deleted (flagged for deletion) e-mail disappears forever. 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.  I could live with evolution
> not moving deleted e-mail if, when I use eudora, *all* messages flagged
> for deletion would get moved to the trash folder.  
>
> Sorry if this is confusing.  The long and short of this is that it seems
> like it would be nice if there was a way (perhaps a trick with vfolders
> or filters?) to move email that is deleted from an evolution imap folder
> into an imap trash folder.  
>
> thanks, 
> mark
>
>
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