Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 15:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > I'm not a great user of gmail - I have an account though - and my
> > > impression was that there was no Trash folder - when you delete a mail
> > > in Gmail it disappears.  I certainly can't see a Trash folder.  I seem
> > > to remember there was a big song and dance when Gmail was created that
> > > you had so much space that you need never delete a message again -
> > > just
> > > mark it that you don't want it to be seen - 'delete' always meant that
> > > you never wanted to see the message again.
> >
> > Gmail doesn't of course have folders, it has labels, which are not the
> > same thing. And one of them is Trash (just look a little closer
> > Pete :-). Nonetheless Gmail presents its labels to IMAP clients as if
> > they were folders so AFAIK the point is more or less moot.
>
> Hmm.  But when I delete something it never gets a trash label, it just
> disappears.  The same thing happens within Evo - I delete a message, it
> gets marked as deleted, then quickly disappears.

I'm guessing that Gmail is "moving" it to [Gmail]/Trash, i.e.
relabelling it and removing the original label. That seems to be what
the help page is saying. Of course with a standard IMAP delete on a
non-Gmail IMAP server, there is no original label (it's just in its
folder), hence the apparent difference.

> > 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?

That's my understanding, based on the help page. It wouldn't be hard to
test but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :-)

poc