Re: [Evolution] Set folders trash and junk/spam manually

[Oliver Horn <oliverhorn gmx com>]

Well, thank you, it became clear to me now. I will contact my mail
provider instead of open a bug report on that.

Oliver

Am Montag, den 20.04.2009, 18:40 +0100 schrieb Pete Biggs:
> > Ok, before I report a bug at this I wanna describe it a bit more, maybe
> > there are some options I didn't recognize.
> >
> > I have two computer, both with evolution, both using the same IMAP
> > account. There are a trash and a junk folder provided, which I can't
> > delete. As I said evolution on both computers created another trash and
> > another junk folder which are virtual as you described parallel to that
> > I subscribed trash and junk which are provided.
> >
> > By deleting a mail from inbox on pc1 this mail disappears there and
> > appears in the virtual trash evolution created on pc1, the trash folder
> > I subscribed is empty. Now I check my mails online and the mail still
> > appears in inbox, trash there is empty. On pc2, mail appears in that
> > virtual trash evolution created there, the subscribed trash is empty.
> >
> > By clearing the virtual trash of evolution on pc1/pc2 the mail gets
> > deleted from online inbox and the virtual trash on pc2/pc1. It doesn't
> > appear anywhere now.
> >
> > Second try: Deleting a mail from online inbox. Mail disappears from all
> > inboxes and appears in the online trash and the subscribed trash
> > folders. But though there is no option to clear the subscribed trash
> > folders I can only delete the message it contains and after that clear
> > the virtual trash on one of the clients.
>
> Yes, that is all correct behaviour.  It will probably be more clear if
> you unset the "hide deleted mails" under the view menu:  when you delete
> the message in Evo the mail doesn't disappear, it is marked as deleted
> and will appear with a line through it - any messages so marked will be
> shown in the Trash virtual folder.
>
> The other thing you have to realise is that the "Trash" folder on your
> server is just another folder - it happens to be one that some clients
> copy mail to when they are deleted - but it is just another folder.
> They implement the "delete" by copying the message to the "Trash"
> folder, then marking the message as deleted in the originating folder.
> The fact that it appears in the virtual Trash folder is because it
> hasn't actually been removed from the inbox yet - so in fact what your
> "online" client is doing is duplicating the mail.
>
> To permanently remove the deleted mail from your system you need to do
> an expunge.
>
> > What I would expect is that in both cases the mail appears in a trash
> > which can be virtual, thats ok, but this trash should contain the same
> > on all evolution clients and online, that is not the case here.
>
> If your online client did thing properly then it would :-)
>
> P.
>
>
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