Re: [Evolution] Trash not emptied on exit.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

There's a known bug about this not always working (its time dependent,
so it depends on machine speed, etc).  It became 'too hard' to fix
because of some architectural issues with the way camel works ...

But its known and hopefully will be fixed one day.

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:05, Dwight Tovey wrote:
> I use evolution on my laptop to access my email on my UW IMAP server. 
> On that server I use procmail to filter my messages as they come in and
> deliver them to appropriate folders in my home directory.  For example,
> all mail from the 'evolution-admin' goes into the ~/mail/Evolution
> folder, while all mail from my employer's server goes into the
> ~/mail/Work folder.  Any messages not caught by any of these filtering
> rules gets delivered to the regular INBOX in /var/spool/mail.
>
> In evo's "Mail Preferences" I have "Empty trash folders on exit"
> selected.  When I delete a message (whether from INBOX or from any of my
> local folders) I see it get marked for deletion, and if I check the
> Trash Vfolder I see it show up there.  However, when I exit evo and come
> back later, apparently only the messages that were deleted from INBOX
> are actually expunged.  Mail that was deleted from the other folders is
> still in the Trash Vfolder (and still marked as deleted in the original
> folder).  Manually using the 'Expunge' command while actually in a given
> folder will expunge the messages.
>
> I figure this is probably related to evolution using a Vfolder for trash
> instead of a real folder, but before that happens is there any way to
> get evolution to do an expunge in all subscribed folders?
>
>       /dwight
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