Re: [Evolution] Logic behind a line through deleted messages and copying them to Trash?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Can someone help me understand the logic or usefulness of both putting a
> line through the deleted message in the folder in which it is found AND
> putting a copy in the Trash folder?  Why not one or the other but not
> both?  

The 'Trash' folder isn't real, it's a virtual folder and as such things
don't really get moved there.  With IMAP you don't delete messages
straight away - you mark them as deleted, then when you 'expunge' the
folder (ctrl-E for those who like the keyboard) they are deleted.  It's
all to do with efficiency on the server side.

> I've never encountered this "feature" before and am curious if there is
> a practical use for it.  

Not a 'practical' use, more an inbuilt part of IMAP.  Other programs
that move messages to a 'real' trash are actually doing 'copy',
'delete', 'expunge' in one go.

> I am aware that I can hide deleted messages and thereby "remove" the
> messages having a line through them from view.  But it would seem that
> there would be some usefulness to viewing them otherwise there would be
> no option to seeing them.  

Well still being able to see them means you know that you have messages
to expunge.

P.

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