Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

[Matej Cepl <mcepl redhat com>]

On 2007-11-07, 17:27 GMT, James Pifer wrote:
> 2) I also connected to my corporate mail (Lotus Notes) using 
> IMAP. When I would delete messages they would "disappear" or 
> become hidden on Evo, but if I used the Notes client the 
> messages were still in the Inbox. I also didn't seem to be able 
> to use Folders. Maybe there were settings that I could have 
> modified this behavior, but I did not see any. 
>
> Thunderbird handles both of these situations a lot better. The 
> trade off I think, is that Thunderbird is a little bit slower.  
> Good trade off for me since now I do not have to go back 
> periodically and cleanup my Inbox with the Notes client.

Are you sure that you just haven't forgot to do Folder/Clean (or 
Purge, I am not sure with the English wording)? IMHO, exactly in 
terms of deleted messages on IMAP servers Evolution is much 
better than Thunderbird, which is just clueless. Google for it 
a little bit, but IMHO (and in the opinion of the authors of IMAP 
protocol -- Mark Crispin to name the one) the right way of 
deleting messages in IMAP folders is to mark them as \Deleted and 
physically delete them only on purge. Of course, then you have to 
have âView/Hide deleted messagesâ (as Evolution has and 
Thunderbird and I suspect Lotus Notes doesn't). See Thunderbird's 
bug for that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359281

MatÄj