Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail

[Christian <gmane 20 ceed spamgourmet com>]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755 and
> > > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892
> > > So does this answer the OP question?  When you delete a message using
> > > IMAP it will be moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder because that's where
> > > its label indicates it should be?
> >
> > As far as I can see the message simply disappears when I delete it in
> > Evo and is not moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder as I would want it to
> > be. It's not placed in the local trash either.
>
> As others have said (and I've now found by experimenting) the IMAP
> delete just removes the label - so the mail doesn't appear anywhere
> unless you select "All Mail".
>
> This is surely a Google "feature" and not something that Evo can (or
> should) deal with.
>
>
> >  All it would take is to
> > add an option in Evo where you could set where deleted mail should go
> > just like for Drafts and Sent.
>
> No. Because of the way IMAP works moving mail to a "Trash" folder will
> cause too many problems - IMAP has a method for dealing with deleted
> mail (i.e. mark as deleted, then expunge) for a reason and fiddling with
> it creates too many other cludges elsewhere.  There are lots of
> discussions on this list in the past about it.

What kind of problems exactly? This would simply be an option and not
something forced on anyone. Other e-mail clients have this option
without any of them becoming problematic because of it.
> >  Other e-mail clients has while
> > Thunderbird has a custom setting having the Gmail trash folder used.
> > That could be the other option for Evo: A custom setting for Gmail.
>
> So because Gmail decides to break a standard, Evo has to program around
> it?

In my opinion, yes although "has to" is too strong. Evo "should"
consider the Gmail service so important to support that resolving this
problem should be looked into. Fortunately there's now Thunderbird which
has such a fix. I've used Evo for years but now through some projects
I'm involved in I have to use a Gmail powered account quite extensively.
I will check out Thunderbird and see how close to Evo it is in other
ways and then make a decision what to do. Evo already has great support
for Google calendar and address book. I do not understand why it
shouldn't support Google's email also.
>  
> P.
>
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//Christian