Re: [Evolution] mail staying in trash folder

["K. Elo" <maillists nic fi>]

Hi,

2006-08-22 14:31 +0930, Iain Buchanan:
> Hi again :)
>
> I noticed that mail I delete from my imap account goes to the imap
> "trash" virtual folder.  So far so good.  However, I have email's in
> there from July - possibly every mail I've ever deleted is still there
> (since installing version 2.6.2 of evolution).
>
> Is deleting these emails supposed to be an evolution thing, or does evo
> just mark them for deletion, and the imap folder handles it later?

Have You tried to expunge your folders (Crtl+E). This cleans out the
trash bin and permanently removes all deleted messages.

There is also a configuration option (Edit->Preferences->Email
preferences) for automating this task ("Expunge folders" or something
like that).

Hope this helps,
Kimmo