On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 17:11 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 19:55 -0600, Chris wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 00:21 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 16:08 -0600, Chris wrote: > > > > Now to make sense of my subject. If I deleted the messages in my 'Spam' > > > > folder they are moved to 'Trash' however, they are still in > > > > ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur. I've noticed this when I moved some false positives > > > > from the spam folder to my Inbox and ran Spamassassin to report those > > > > left in the folder. It picked up the ones I'd moved also. The same thing > > > > happens if I delete some old spam from the folder before running SA. > > > > This is Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, Gnome 3.12.2 and Evolution 3.12.9. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > The Evo spam folder is called Junk. Are we talking about the same thing? > > > Junk is a virtual folder. > > > > > > Trash in Evolution is also a virtual folder. "Moving" a message to Trash > > > (or equivalently deleting it) simply marks it for deletion, meaning it > > > shows up in the virtual Trash folder. However it hasn't physically gone > > > anywhere. This is the way IMAP is designed to work, though some other > > > MUAs don't seem to realize this. It means that undeleting can be done by > > > simply flipping the "deleted" bit. To really remove deleted messages you > > > can either empty the Trash folder (File->Empty Trash) which will remove > > > all messages marked for deletion in any folder, or more selectively use > > > Folder->Expunge (or Ctrl-E) which only affects messages in the current > > > folder. > > > > > > Try setting View->Show Deleted Messages to get a better idea of what's > > > really going on. > > > > > > poc > > > > > Thanks Andre and Patrick, nope, this is an actual Spam folder Patrick > > where where procmail places spam once it's marked as such by SA which is > > not being run within Evo. > > Fair enough. It doesn't change the thrust of what I was saying, just > that Junk is another virtual folder. > > > Didn't realize I had to expunge the trash > > folder to remove them, don't remember having to do that with earlier > > versions of Evo (way earlier than what I'm running now). > > Well, you either expunge the folder which contains the deleted messages, > or empty the Trash, which does the same thing on every folder containing > deleted messages, i.e. emptying the Trash is just a shorthand way of > visiting each folder and expunging it. Evo has always worked this way, > since it's how IMAP is designed to work. Note that there is a Preference > option for auto-expunging on exit, so you may have had that enabled. > > poc > Thanks Patrick, and that is very possible as I can't honestly remember back that far.
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