Re: [Evolution] Message deletion bug?

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:12 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> [I tried this on 2.4.1 and 2.5.1 with the same result.]
>
> First some background which may or may no be relevant. The way I handle
> spam is for a server-side SpamAssassin process to file suspect messages
> in a SPAM folder. For false negatives (i.e. undetected spam) I manually
> move the offending messages to a subfolder of SPAM and periodically
> process it by logging in to the server.
>
> Processing involves a little shell script on the server which calls
> sa-learn on the contents of the subfolder.
>
> After that, I delete the contents of the subfolder using Evo. I then
> expunge the subfolder to clean it out.

Patrick,

This sounds neat - it's bugged me for a while that I'm processing spam
in two places (I also have SA on my server). Would you mind posting your
script - I'd like to try it on my set-up?

Thanks,

Des

> For curiousity, I just checked on the server and the last bunch of spam
> had not been deleted. Nevertheless, Evo shows the folder as empty. I
> made sure Evo was set to Show Deleted Messages, and Show Hidden
> Messages. I also made sure there was nothing in the Search box.
>
> I exited Evo and fired up Thunderbird. Sure enough, the messages are
> still there. Go back to Evo and they don't appear.
>
> I've never seen this happen before and am not sure I can reproduce it,
> which is why I'm giving so much detail. Probably this has nothing to do
> with spam processing as such. (Note that Evo doesn't know I consider
> these messages to be spam, as I don't use the Junk controls).
>
> It's worrying that an apparently deleted message is still present on the
> server, *even after quitting and restarting Evo*. Is this another
> caching bug or what?
>
> poc
>
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