On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:54 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > When I delete messages in Gmail it's moved to the [Gmail]/Trash folder > > from which it's permanently deleted after 30 days. So all it would take > > to get it working was having an option to set the Trash folder just like > > you can sett Sent and Drafts. > > You should be aware that the "Trash" folder in Evo is not a real folder > - it's effectively a search folder that shows all messages that are > currently marked for deletion (please untick View->Hide Deleted Messages > so you can see the deleted messages in their original folders) - as such > re-implementing the Trash as a real folder would take a considerable > amount of work.
The delete/expunge concept in IMAP is not my favorite feature of the protocol. Several e-mail client "mask" this by offering options to expunge messages as soon as Delete is hit, and offer an option to move deleted mail to a set trash folder. I would like to see those options in Evo. Please note that I say "option to" and not that I want it to be the default way. Evo offers to hide deleted mail which is good though. If it would be a considerable amount of work having the option to set where mail should go when you hit delete I can understand that it's not prioritized. I wish it was though. > > Also you should consider the process that is necessary to delete a > message under the two schemes - for the Evo/IMAP model all you need to > do is a single "mark as deleted" operation over IMAP followed at some > later time by an expunge; for the "move to trash" paradigm you need to > do a "copy message to folder" (IMAP only has a copy operation), "mark > message as deleted in original folder", "expunge original folder". The > killer is that the "expunge" operation is a time costly process, but if > you don't do the expunge you will be left with lots of messages marked > for deletion in the original folder. It may be OK if you are deleting a > single message - but I often delete 100s or 1000s at a time... I understand it requires a few operations but it works great in other e-mail clients so I'm sure it would in Evo also. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > -- //Christian _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
