Re: [Evolution] Evo not moving mails properly out of exchange via IMAP

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:44 +0100, Ignacio Mas Ivars wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using evolution to access an exchange server that stores my mail,
> but using IMAP. I have a set of filters that move the mails out of the
> exchange server into local folders. However, when evolution picks up the
> mail, that mail does not show any more in the Inbox of the IMAP folder
> in Evo, but it still still there if you open Outlook. The same behaviour
> occurs when I move manually a mail from the IMAP Inbox into a local
> folder. This forces me to open Outlook every second day and clean up the
> read mails which are still there.
> Is it a well known bug or is it a particular implementation problem of
> the IMAP interface of exchange? I have tested the same behavior with
> Thunderbird and it successfully removes the mail from the IMAP account,
> so it's something related to the IMAP implementation of Evo...

The IMAP protocol does not support moving messages as a basic action, it
only supports copying. Evo "moves" a message by copying it and marking
it for deletion. It doesn't matter if the "move" is manual or via a
filter, the same thing happens. The marked message will go away if you
expunge the folder (Folder->expunge or Ctrl-E) or do File->Empty Trash.
Presumably TB does this automatically, but Evo doesn't.

It's not a bug, it's a feature :-)

poc