Re: [Evolution] Deleted messages not really deleted

[Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>]

On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 00:21 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 16:08 -0600, Chris wrote:
> > Now to make sense of my subject. If I deleted the messages in my 'Spam'
> > folder they are moved to 'Trash' however, they are still in
> > ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur. I've noticed this when I moved some false positives
> > from the spam folder to my Inbox and ran Spamassassin to report those
> > left in the folder. It picked up the ones I'd moved also. The same thing
> > happens if I delete some old spam from the folder before running SA.
> > This is Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, Gnome 3.12.2 and Evolution 3.12.9. 
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> The Evo spam folder is called Junk. Are we talking about the same thing?
> Junk is a virtual folder.
>
> Trash in Evolution is also a virtual folder. "Moving" a message to Trash
> (or equivalently deleting it) simply marks it for deletion, meaning it
> shows up in the virtual Trash folder. However it hasn't physically gone
> anywhere. This is the way IMAP is designed to work, though some other
> MUAs don't seem to realize this. It means that undeleting can be done by
> simply flipping the "deleted" bit. To really remove deleted messages you
> can either empty the Trash folder (File->Empty Trash) which will remove
> all messages marked for deletion in any folder, or more selectively use
> Folder->Expunge (or Ctrl-E) which only affects messages in the current
> folder.
>
> Try setting View->Show Deleted Messages to get a better idea of what's
> really going on.
>
> poc
Thanks Andre and Patrick, nope, this is an actual Spam folder Patrick
where where procmail places spam once it's marked as such by SA which is
not being run within Evo. Didn't realize I had to expunge the trash
folder to remove them, don't remember having to do that with earlier
versions of Evo (way earlier than what I'm running now).  

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