Re: [Evolution] How to make Evolution delete mails on server?

[Kåre Fiedler Christiansen <fedora kaarefc dk>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 14:01,  <tec turboprinz de> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I am new to Evolution and very greatful that there is an option like this mailing list to exchange 
> experiences with the software and ask some questions - thankyou to all who is so active in supporting this 
> community!
>
> My concern is that after I delete mails in Evolution, I have expected them to be deleted from the server as 
> well (as e.g. in Outlook). Is there such an option in Evoltion?
>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for a short response!

Evolution marks the mail as deleted when you press delete, but it
doesn't disappear completely until you empty trash. You can do that
for a specific folder by pressing Ctrl+E in the folder or selecting
Folder->Expunge, or you can do it for all folders by selecting
File->Empty Trash. You can also set evolution to automatically empty
trash when you quit somewhere in the preferences.

This is standard behaviour for IMAP folders. For reasons best known to
Microsoft, they implemented this in a similar but incompatible way, by
moving mail to a folder called "Deleted Items" when you delete them.


By the way, please start a new mail when writing to the list, rather
than repying to an old mail or a digest. It makes the mailing list
easier to navigate and organize.

Best,
  Kåre
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Kåre Fiedler Christiansen