Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:49 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > 2.  In Thunderbird, I have an IMAP folder for "Junk, Sent, Trash, and 
> > > Drafts," and these special folders are configured respectively. I don't 
> > > really like how "Junk" and "Trash" in Evo are simply VFolders that show 
> > > me emails "marked" as deleted or junk.  If I use squirrelmail to check 
> > > my email from somewhere else,  I then don't have a "Trash" folder to 
> > > keep deleted emails, and likewise for "Junk".
> >
> > True. IMAP is better at "mark-and-expunge" deletion that "move to a
> > Trash folder" model, but it would be nice to have a choice (with TBird
> > you can do it either way, but you can't hide the marked messages).
>
> this is in bugzilla as a feature request item (don't recall the request
> # off the top of my head)

Evo handles mark-and-expunge deletion OK as it is. It sounds like all
you really need is to be able to make its unwanted 'Trash' and 'Junk'
folders disappear. I posted a patch to evolution-patches yesterday which
allows the user to do that.

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dwmw2