The ideal mail client?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 21:45 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:43:33 -0400
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:58:15 -0430
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > > * i.e. deleting a message simply marks it, and expunging a folder
> > > removes marked messages. This is how IMAP is defined to work.
> > 
> > I've always hated that particular IMAP convention. Actually, I'd
> > rather have a client that just did the dadgum delete when I told
> > it to delete. If I didn't mean it, it is my fault - I already said
> > delete, I don't want to have to say "expunge" or "empty trash" :-).
> 
> I just noticed that the new claws-mail 3.7.2 (which just appeared in
> the fedora repos) says that it supports IMAP mark/expunge semantics
> via an option in the imap mail account properties dialog, so you
> should be able to use imap in claws-mail now :-).

I had understood that to be proposed for version 4, but I must have been
mistaken. I look forward to trying it out.

poc