Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail

[Christian <gmane 20 ceed spamgourmet com>]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:54 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > When I delete messages in Gmail it's moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder
> > from which it's permanently deleted after 30 days. So all it would take
> > to get it working was having an option to set the Trash folder just like
> > you can sett Sent and Drafts.
>
> You should be aware that the "Trash" folder in Evo is not a real folder
> - it's effectively a search folder that shows all messages that are
> currently marked for deletion (please untick View->Hide Deleted Messages
> so you can see the deleted messages in their original folders) - as such
> re-implementing the Trash as a real folder would take a considerable
> amount of work.

The delete/expunge concept in IMAP is not my favorite feature of the
protocol. Several e-mail client "mask" this by offering options to
expunge messages as soon as Delete is hit, and offer an option to move
deleted mail to a set trash folder. I would like to see those options in
Evo. Please note that I say "option to" and not that I want it to be the
default way. Evo offers to hide deleted mail which is good though.

If it would be a considerable amount of work having the option to set
where mail should go when you hit delete I can understand that it's not
prioritized. I wish it was though.
> Also you should consider the process that is necessary to delete a
> message under the two schemes - for the Evo/IMAP model all you need to
> do is a single "mark as deleted" operation over IMAP followed at some
> later time by an expunge; for the "move to trash" paradigm you need to
> do a "copy message to folder" (IMAP only has a copy operation), "mark
> message as deleted in original folder", "expunge original folder".  The
> killer is that the "expunge" operation is a time costly process, but if
> you don't do the expunge you will be left with lots of messages marked
> for deletion in the original folder.  It may be OK if you are deleting a
> single message - but I often delete 100s or 1000s at a time...

I understand it requires a few operations but it works great in other
e-mail clients so I'm sure it would in Evo also.
> P.
>
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//Christian