Re: [Evolution] Some questions..

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:47:22 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 15:29 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > > Delete then expunge (Folder->Expunge or Ctrl-E). That's how IMAP is
> > > designed to work.  
> >
> > Yes, I know.. But having the possibility to delete and expunge at the
> > same time would be nice...  
>
> Why? The point of the IMAP model is to a) make deletion easily
> reversible, and b) reduce server load by batching expunges. Note that
> you can configure Evo to expunge automatically under various
> conditions. Since you're coming from Claws I'll note that they had it
> wrong for a long time (i.e. they hadn't implemented IMAP correctly). I
> think I complained about it a few years ago and there was a proposal to
> add the canonical behaviour as an option.
>
> There's also an issue about Trash folders. In Evo the default Trash is
> a virtual folder which just lists the messages marked for deletion, but
> recent versions allow you to specify a real Trash if that's what you
> want or your server-side forces it on you, e.g. for Exchange. In that
> case deleted messages will be moved to the real folder and presumably
> expunged from their original location (I say "presumably" because I've
> never tried this).
>
> poc

Ok, thx for your comments... I am just weird and I would like my email do be deleted when I delete it, I 
never use any trashcans anywhere on my
computers... But I guess that's just me... :)

But about IMAP IDLE, it should just work when choosing IMAP+? And no need to then set "Check for new messages 
every x miunutes"?


BTJ