On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 11:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 15:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not a great user of gmail - I have an account though - and my > > > > impression was that there was no Trash folder - when you delete a mail > > > > in Gmail it disappears. I certainly can't see a Trash folder. I seem > > > > to remember there was a big song and dance when Gmail was created that > > > > you had so much space that you need never delete a message again - > > > > just > > > > mark it that you don't want it to be seen - 'delete' always meant that > > > > you never wanted to see the message again. > > > > > > Gmail doesn't of course have folders, it has labels, which are not the > > > same thing. And one of them is Trash (just look a little closer > > > Pete :-). Nonetheless Gmail presents its labels to IMAP clients as if > > > they were folders so AFAIK the point is more or less moot. > > > > Hmm. But when I delete something it never gets a trash label, it just > > disappears. The same thing happens within Evo - I delete a message, it > > gets marked as deleted, then quickly disappears. >
Deleting a message from Evolution is similar like the mail archiving feature we use in browser for gmail. You will find your deleted message under this folder: [Gmail]-->All Mail because it only removes the label. > I'm guessing that Gmail is "moving" it to [Gmail]/Trash, i.e. > relabelling it and removing the original label. That seems to be what > the help page is saying. Of course with a standard IMAP delete on a > non-Gmail IMAP server, there is no original label (it's just in its > folder), hence the apparent difference. > > > > > > > See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755 and > > > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892 > > > > > So does this answer the OP question? When you delete a message using > > IMAP it will be moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder because that's where > > its label indicates it should be? > > That's my understanding, based on the help page. It wouldn't be hard to > test but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :-) > > poc > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
