Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > > 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.

>  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?

P.