According to the manual (where the worms have not eaten yet anyway) and the tests I performed to double check the documentation given yours and Art's view of expunge, expunge means something different depending on context. If a folder is selected, ctrl-e empties just that folder but leaves the Trash folder in tact. Well, my 200 TB of trash is still there anyway including messages that used to be in the folder (an IMAP folder as I said before) that I expunged. Meanwhile, if I expunge the Trash folder or "empty trash", then they all go. All that seems to be in accord with the documentation. Sorry if there is a different idea of what expunge means, but the documentation and system behavior agree in this case.
Yes, I read about the virtual delete and figured the trash folder was really just a reference to all of the messages that are hiding in other folders. How it is actually implemented did not seem all that important to me since it does have the behavior I am looking for. I can still imagine how you can expunge a single folder without loosing everything. If the email is copied to another folder (as move does with IMAP), then expunging a folder should leave messages in the trash that exist in another folder and have been deleted as well. Anyway, I am glad to know that it is the expunge term that has been causing the confusion. I am just glad that it works the way it does. On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:42 -0700, Pete Biggs wrote: > > It is all of the special behaviors of the Trash folder that I like and > > use. The only function it has that I do not use is the empty function. I > > am perfectly capable of not emptying the trash when exiting Evo and can > > avoid clicking on it in the menus. Again I never asked Evo not to > > support the emptying function. I simply stated that minus the empty > > function, which I am free not to employ, it has all of the behaviors and > > attributes that I am looking for. > > But you say that you use Expunge - to everyone here that is identical to > "emptying the trash" - the "Trash" folder in Evo is a virtual folder of > all the deleted messages in all your folders - when you expunge a > folder, those messages disappear from the Trash folder. If your Trash > folder doesn't work like that, then we are talking at cross purposes. > > That is why people are talking about round pegs in square holes - the > trash folder is *not* a normal folder - in fact, it's not a folder at > all. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- Al Niessner 818.354.0859 All opinions stated above are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of JPL or NASA. -------- | dS | >= 0 -------- _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
