Re: [orca-list] Hmm! Another really weird Thunderbird observation

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

My understanding of Gmail is a bit different. It's true you don't have folders. Each message has a bunch of labels attached to it, and what looks like a folder is the list of all of the messages that have that label attached to it. For example, when you delete a message you remove all of the labels and add a trash label to the message. When you look in the trash folder, you're seeing all of the messages that have this trash label. The all folder simply shows you every message on the server no matter what label it has.

I suspect you're right though that since IMAP isn't actually deleting anything from the server, when you look at the account with a client set up to use POP3, all of those messages will be downloaded. I'm not familiar with this expunge option when it comes to an IMAP setup though, so I could be all wet.

On 10/24/2017 03:23 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,

I don't know all the details however my guess is that this may not be the thunderbird issue but a gmail one.

When you remove a message in gmail only the labels are cleared and message is put into Gmail -> All messages folder.

Perhaps this causing your POP3 email client to redownload the message.

Greetings

Peter

2017-10-24 4:03 GMT+02:00 Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>:

OK, this is really weird.

 

I let Thunderbird automatically configure my Gmail account.

 

It did wonderfully with that, by the way.

 

It set it up by default as IMap, which is wonderful.

 

I told it however in the account settings that after I mark a message for deletion, once I exit Thunderbird, I want it to delete those messages immediately off the server, and expunge the current folder, which in this case, would be the inbox.

 

Well, now, I go to my PC where my GMail is set as pop3, (don't ask,) and all my messages I just deleted on my Linux machine redownload from the server.

 

What the heck! NO, I don't wanna switch this pop3 configuration over to IMap on my desktop machine. There are extremely specific reasons why I don't want IMap over here.

 

Chris.

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