* read with a little tongue in cheek * Because real trash stinks and is not easily searchable while email has no odor and is incredibly easy to search (in Evo anyway). Sure, I could create a host of folders and sort my email and file it in a wonderful organization that I will never remember, but why waste the time? I could even create a folder and move every email into it, but why when Evo already create one for me called Trash? Evo even makes it single key strokes or a push of a button to file my email in that single special folder called Trash. I can search it, sort it, filter it, pull stuff back out of it, and a host of other useful tasks with it. Best of all, I can ignore it until I do not need look at it. So, why should I care that it is called Trash instead of ToLazyToSort?
I understand why you are asking, but I think the analogy of my back yard and real trash is a bit of a reash. In a lot of ways, my Trash folder in Evo is just a microcosim for Evo to pretend it is google with. When I use google, the item I am searching for has value only for the moment I am searching for it. I had no value yesterday and probably will not tomorrow. We do not ask people to delete their websites and pages because they are not valuable to us now. Instead we ask google to separate the immediately useful from the everyday trivia. Email is the same way. What I receive today may not be of value at that moment or may have value again in the future. My Trash folder thus becomes the glod of information and Evo my search engine. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 04:03 To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] IMAP and Expunge 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. > But in Evo, Trash is a virtual folder that just shows all messages marked as deleted in all your folders - so expunging will also remove your precious trash. I've never really understood this desire to use deleted messages as a filing system - if you need to keep them, don't delete them, move them to another folder. You wouldn't keep all your trash from your house piled up in your back yard in case you might possibly need, so why do it with email? P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
