Re: [Evolution] [ANNOUNCE] Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services) Alpha release

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 22:49 +0100, Ruslan Tarasov wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 20:02 +0300, Ruslan Tarasov wrote:
> > > 1. There is no virtual Trash directory in a new EWS account. This
> > > makes it hard to track deleted messages. As an alternative it would be
> > > useful to move deleted mails to "Delete Items" directory instead of
> > > marking them as deleted.
> >
> > Our initial testers actually complained about the *presence* of the
> > virtual 'Trash' folder, and rightly so IMO. You don't want a Trash
> > folder *any* a Deleted Items folder.
> >
> > If you want vfolders, there's a home for them right at the bottom of the
> > folder pane. They have no business being mixed in with the *real*
> > folders.
> >
> > There is certainly more work to be done on deletion. We know how to
> > *read* the 'deleted' flag which is set when we mark a message as
> > \Deleted on the IMAP side, but we haven't yet worked out how to *set* it
> > from EWS yet.
>
> Ideally, I would like messages to be moved to "Deleted Items" when I
> delete them, but even the current way (marking them as deleted
> instead), is OK to me.

There is an open bug for Evolution generically, for using a "real trash
folder" and actually moving messages to it instead of marking them for
deletion. That was done as a dirty hack in the imap back end, where it
notices the "mark for deletion" request and actually *moves* the message
instead. But that dirty hack doesn't live in *every* back end; it should
live in the higher level instead, and then the back ends just get a
normal "move message" request instead.

Once that's done, we should be able to use the "Deleted Items" folder
fairly easily.

The disadvantage of this approach is that you don't know where the
message came from, so you cannot *undelete* it. But I think that's what
Exchange/Outlook users are used to, so I think that's what we'll do.

> Address auto-complete works perfectly with the last version from git. Thanks!

Cool. Thanks for testing.

> Contacts still do not seem to show on the contacts tab in evolution,
> but auto-complete is more than enough for me.

I think Chen almost has that working. Watch this space... :)

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