Re: [Evolution] Moved messages disappear from source, never show in destination

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 10:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 10:09 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 00:40 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > > them on the new folder as the standard method on IMAP is to
> > > > copy,
> > > > then
> > > > delete the original (or IIRC to use an IMAPX primitive that
> > > > does an
> > > > atomic move), but I can't speak to what happens on EWS. Have
> > > > you
> > > > selected Show Deleted Messages in the origin folder?
> > > I didn't try that. I do know the messages aren't gone, because I
> > > can
> > > see them via the Web interface or if I recreate the account. They
> > > just
> > > no longer show up in my message list. I guess they must be marked
> > > deleted on my client, but not actually purged. But they shouldn't
> > > stay
> > > marked deleted if they weren't successfully moved, I think.
> > IIRC even after a successful move Evo will not purge the deleted
> > messages until you tell it to. Again, this is on IMAP. I've no idea
> > what EWS does.
> Not entirely true on IMAP - there is now a "MOVE" primitive which Evo
> will use if it's available and that isn't implemented as a
> COPY+DELETE,
> but is a true MOVE. Hence there are no deleted messages to be purged
> -
> so you are (probably) correct that Evo doesn't do a purge, but the
> overall effect is that it looks like it has. Confused me no end when
> it first happened.

Yes, I was aware of the new MOVE (I mentioned it earlier in the thread)
but I think it depends on IMAPX rather than IMAP. Not that I've checked
or anything :-)

poc