On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:16 -0700, Al Niessner wrote:
> I understand the desire for the Expunge. However, it is making life hard
> for me with IMAP. I have several filters that move mail around, which
> with IMAP simply marks them for deletion. In Evolution everything looks
> great, but I am not always using Evolution. When I use the web
> interface, all those moved emails are still in the Inbox. Not so
> satisfactory. I went back to my filter rules and looked for the action
> "Expunge" folder "Inbox" so that the IMAP side would do the right thing.
> However, no such action exists.
> 
> I do not want to "Empty Trash" on exit because I like searching my 300
> GB of trash once in a while for the scrap of information that I almost
> lost.
> 
> Hence, I am here asking for a work-around or solution to the problem.
> First, is there an existing way that I can get the filter to execute an
> expunge on a particular folder at the end of a rule?

I don't think so, given that filter actions are applied to messages and
Expunge is applied to folders. You could of course call a Shell script
to do it but that's left as an exercise for the student :-)

poc

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