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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:34, Dan Winship wrote:
> 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.

... which is the way the IMAP protocol was designed and intended to be
used by its architect.

If you want to get rid of your deleted mail more often in evolution,
just empty your trash when you're done.