Re: [Evolution] Moving an email creates a duplicate in thetrash folder (?!)

[re2823 Safe-mail net]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
Apparently from: evolution-list-bounces gnome org
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Moving an email creates a duplicate in thetrash        folder (?!)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:56:10 -0400

> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:37 +0000, re2823 Safe-mail net wrote:
> > Could someone please confirm that I'm not losing my mind. I've
> > discovered that moving emails between folders in evolution creates
> > duplicates in the trash folder. Here's a recipe to reproduce the
> > problem:
> >
> > Take one fresh evolution installation version 2.6.3 on a clean debian
> > etch (no .evolution or .gconf/apps/evolution folders), start evolution,
> > create a new folder (call it anything you like) to archive your emails
> > into, then move the "Getting started" welcome email into your archive
> > folder. Check the inbox to make sure the welcome email is no longer
> > there, check your archive folder to make sure that the welcome mail IS
> > there, now look in the trash folder. There's a duplicate of the welcome email.
> >
> > Huh? Is this unique to my parallel universe, or can someone else
> > reproduce the same?
>
> This is correct and is the way Evo is supposed to work. Briefly, on IMAP
> servers there is no "move" primitive so Evo has to copy the message and
> remove the original. "Removing" in IMAP is a 2-step process: mark as
> deleted, and then expunge the folder. This means you can undo deletes as
> long as you haven't expunged.
>
> The same may apply to Exchange servers; I don't know.
>
> In any case, all you need to do is periodically hit Ctrl-E (Folder
> ->Expunge) or File->Empty Trash (equivalent to Expunge on all folders).

Thanks for that Patrick. Only one question: your answer talks
about IMAP servers, while I was originally talking about my
local (file) mail-store. Do you know if local (file) mail stores
are supposed to behave the same way?

At least I now understand why I have up to ten (10) duplicates of
certain mails in my local folders - I've moved an important mail
into an local archive folder, later discovered that same email in
the trash (a duplicate, but I didn't realize that then), thought
"Shit, what's that really important email doing in the trash,
undelete it, quick" and so on, and so on.

Now to spend a day or two, trying to work out how to get rid of
all my duplicate emails... :-(

Jaime