Re: [Evolution] How to delete single messages from the trash bin

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On February 25, 2019 3:10:05 AM MST, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 16:54 -0700, Zan Lynx 
>
> No, this is not how Evolution Trash works.
>
> The fundamental model in Evolution follows the IMAP paradigm, in which
> deleted messages are merely marked for deletion, not removed. Actually
> removing them is called "expunging". In the Evo interface the Trash
> folder is a search folder by default, so the "deleted" messages stay in
> their original folders but are merely marked for deletion. Toggle the
> View->Show Deleted Messages option to see them.


As a system administrator in a past life I would have "cleaned" user's Trash folders in Exchange without a 
second thought.

As a programmer writing, say, online backup software I would not save files or email in a Trash folder 
anymore than I would save temporary or cache files.

If I ran an online IMAP server, which I do for myself, it would automatically purge deleted messages older 
than a month.

So Evolution *does* work that way. Because it marks a Deleted flag and that flag does whatever the server 
side decides to do.

By no definition of the word "Deleted" does it mean "Keep this until I come back for it."
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