Re: [Evolution] how to delete individual email from trash

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 18:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I wanna delete a individual email from my trash, But evolution doesn't
> > permit me,
>
> You can't - the IMAP operation (which is the model that Evo uses) is
> "purge folder of deleted mails" - there is no operation that purges
> single messages.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4315 provides such a method, actually.
Although Evolution doesn't use it and I can't think of a sane way to
expose it in the UI.

The rest of your response is spot-on. The virtual 'Trash' folder is just
a confusing misrepresentation of what's actually happening, and leads to
this kind of confusion on the part of users.

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dwmw2