Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:17 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

Are you saying you've added an option to make
"move-to-a-real-trash-folder" deletion work? If not, what's the point of
hiding the Trash vFolder? I can't see anyone deleting mail by dragging
it to a physical Trash folder every time.

poc