Re: [Evolution] Deleting mail on IMAP

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:39 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 04:48 -0400, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:18 +0200, jongi wrote:
> > > I have setup IMAP to download mails from my server. What I would like
> > > to do is to remove mails from server when I delete items from
> > > Evolution. Is this possible?
> > When you delete mail in IMAP, the messages are just marked for deletion
> > - you then need to purge the mailbox to permanently remove the marked
> > messages both in Evo and on the server.  It is probably clearer if you
> > turn off the "hide deleted messages" option.
>
> I note you are using Gmail IMAP.  Gmail IMAP is not standard IMAP in
> that there are no folders on the server, only labels.  Messages can have
> no labels (in which case they are presented in the inbox AND All Mail),
> one label (in which case it is presented in Inbox, All Mail, and the
> folder with the name of the label), or multiple labels (in which case
> they appear in Inbox, All Mail, and each and every folder matching the
> multiple labels).
>
>
> I'm not sure how this works on the back end, but deleting a message from
> a folder works differently in evo than kmail or Apple mail (the three
> which I am familiar with).
>
> In kmail and Apple Mail, deleting a message from a label based folder
> moves it to the gmail trash (which I think is a real, and not merely
> virtual folder) removing it from all virtual IMAP folders.  Evo treats
> it as real IMAP and marks it deleted in that folder.  That seems to have
> only the effect of removing that Gmail label and "deleting" it from that
> folder only.  The message still appears in other virtual folders and
> also in the Inbox and All Mail.

This is now a bit more configurable, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/e294c5b3cf59a6e/f216a4585d3d2d97?lnk=gst&q=imap#f216a4585d3d2d97
Basically, it allows you to set Gmail to follow the Evo (i.e. canonical
IMAP) model of deletion. Interestingly, you can set this up on a
per-folder basis (I haven't tried it yet).

poc