Jason Wohlford wrote:
Hi All,
I run a little hosting company. I use Dovecot 1.0.10* with IMAP
exclusively. Lots of my customers use Outlook or Outlook Express. This
poses a problem. These programs don't and have absolutely no
workarounds to move messages to a trash folder when deleted. They only
mark the message for deletion. Then, users have to purge the message
to actually delete it. Outlook has a way to hide deleted messages and
also auto-purge them when moving to a different folder. That just
doesn't cut it. (Thanks Microsoft! :-p )
So, I'm thinking Dovecot could pick up where Microsoft left off.
It seems to me there needs to be two things done. First, a system that
automatically copy a message marked for deletion from one folder (e.g.
INBOX) to a trash folder (e.g. Trash, Deleted Messages, etc.)
Dovecot's lazy_expunge might already do this, but I couldn't quite
discern it from the wiki docs. Second, a way to only do this when
Outlook or Outlook Express is the one who is deleting a message.
Possibility? Comments?
Yes...outlook is one of the worst imap client I have seen..:)
The problem is that the user's Trash folder was not at the root level of
the email account. Outlook did not know how to deal with that.
Move/create users trash folder to the root level. Look for trash
(deleted items) folder with the correct icon appeared. Correct icon
indicates that Outlook now recognizes trash as trash folder.
Cheers,
Jason
P.S. Thanks for the great software!
*Yes, I know. I need to upgrade to Dovecot 1.0.13.
Uldis
