Re: [Evolution] delete [POP'd mail] from trash

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 07:01 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:06 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > What new format are you talking about? This is ambiguous unless we know
> > > > the Evo version.
> > > Whatever was referenced in the email above mine.
> > What "email above" - there are no references or in-reply-to headers in
> > your original email so there's no way of knowing which thread you are
> > talking about - or where your message fits in the thread.  But I presume
> > you mean that Evo now uses Maildir as it's internal format.
> > And no, it shouldn't affect anything.
> > > > What does "can't empty trash" mean? You get an error? The action appears
> > > > to work but nothing happens? It appears to work but something unexpected
> > > > happens?
> > > When I try to empty trash, and I don't have a working network
> > > connection, I get the following error:
> > > "Error while Expunging folder '.#evolution/Trash'.
> > > Host lookup failed: pop.1and1.com: Name or service not known"
> Interesting.  What does "expunge" even mean in the context of POP'd
> mail??  I'm curious why it would even try to call back to the server;
> can POP selectively delete messages? [I don't know, I haven't used POP
> in more than a decade.  Maybe it has evolved from the ugly runt of a
> protocol that is was then?]

Ahh, Milan Crha answers this question in the next unread message of this
thread.

Nevermind.