-------- Original Message -------- From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] Moving an email creates a duplicate in thetrash folder (?!) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:56:10 -0400
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:37 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could someone please confirm that I'm not losing my mind. I've > > discovered that moving emails between folders in evolution creates > > duplicates in the trash folder. Here's a recipe to reproduce the > > problem: > > > > Take one fresh evolution installation version 2.6.3 on a clean debian > > etch (no .evolution or .gconf/apps/evolution folders), start evolution, > > create a new folder (call it anything you like) to archive your emails > > into, then move the "Getting started" welcome email into your archive > > folder. Check the inbox to make sure the welcome email is no longer > > there, check your archive folder to make sure that the welcome mail IS > > there, now look in the trash folder. There's a duplicate of the welcome > > email. > > > > Huh? Is this unique to my parallel universe, or can someone else > > reproduce the same? > > This is correct and is the way Evo is supposed to work. Briefly, on IMAP > servers there is no "move" primitive so Evo has to copy the message and > remove the original. "Removing" in IMAP is a 2-step process: mark as > deleted, and then expunge the folder. This means you can undo deletes as > long as you haven't expunged. > > The same may apply to Exchange servers; I don't know. > > In any case, all you need to do is periodically hit Ctrl-E (Folder > ->Expunge) or File->Empty Trash (equivalent to Expunge on all folders). Thanks for that Patrick. Only one question: your answer talks about IMAP servers, while I was originally talking about my local (file) mail-store. Do you know if local (file) mail stores are supposed to behave the same way? At least I now understand why I have up to ten (10) duplicates of certain mails in my local folders - I've moved an important mail into an local archive folder, later discovered that same email in the trash (a duplicate, but I didn't realize that then), thought "Shit, what's that really important email doing in the trash, undelete it, quick" and so on, and so on. Now to spend a day or two, trying to work out how to get rid of all my duplicate emails... :-( Jaime _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
