Re: [evolution-patches] IMAP namespace pollution.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 17:57 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> So you're suggesting  a new behaviour which is bizarre and confusing
> then? 

No, I'm suggesting that vFolders should not appear in the IMAP part of
the folder tree. They don't belong there -- _that_ is the bizarre and
confusing part. I am suggesting that we should have at least an _option_
to return to consistency, showing only IMAP folders which actually exist
on the server rather than inventing new folders of our own and
displaying them as if they exist on the server.

If the virtual 'junk' and 'trash' folders are to exist, then there
should be a proper distinction between them and real folders. If you
want to fix that, that would be great too -- but it would _still_ be
useful to be able to disable them to avoid the waste of space and the
potential user confusion, unless they're really hidden away somewhere.

>  How can you have a physical trash folder and have any use for it,

The messages which arrive from the "Timeless Rockers And Stupid Hippies"
mailing list are delivered into that folder. What does it have to do
with deleted messages? It's _my_ namespace. 

Or maybe I have a Courier mail server which does the pointless 'Trash'
thing all by itself. (I don't; I disabled that while I was using
courier, and have since switched to dovecot).

>  yet still maintain the deleted flag behaviour?

The _normal_ behaviour of the deleted flag doesn't involve the 'Trash'
vFolder in any way. Messages are flagged for deletion, then later
expunged. They are not magically moved to another folder. This is how
IMAP works -- to do otherwise would be inconsistent and would confuse
the user.

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dwmw2