Re: [Evolution] Feature request: Delete from Trash folder

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > On IMAP servers, you can flag messages to be deleted. Exactly these
> > messages are shown in the vFolder [1] Trash. Then there is an IMAP
> > command, to physically remove all messages marked for deletion.
> >
> > AFAIK there is no command to physically delete a message.
>
> Some servers support an additional expunge command, uid expunge, where
> you can expunge only specific selected messages.

OK, I will memorize this...


> The main issue is that we have a common api to all backends.  If we were
> to add this api capability, we'd have to emulate it for those (majority
> of) backends/servers that don't support it natively.  And for imap this
> emulation isn't guaranteed to be correct, and is pretty messy to
> implement (you have to undelete any deleted but uninteresting messages,
> delete the ones you want to delete, then expunge all deleted messages,
> then re-delete the others).

*shrug*  I avoided explaining this in detail...

...guenther


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