expunge in evolution is no longer working-CORRECTION

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Mon Feb 15 14:28:38 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 14:59 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 15:21 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 18:32 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> [...] 
> > > The above solution did not work in that expunge does not remove deleted
> > > files.
> > > I am not using IMAP.
> > ----
> > considering that 'EXPUNGE' is an IMAP command, I would find the notion
> > that it doesn't work hardly surprising.
> 
> In fact Evo implements the expunge model even for non-IMAP mail, for the
> sake of consistency. AFAIK the only exception is for Exchange, which has
> its own ideas.

Although for POP3, Evo still apparently doesn't support the option to
"delete on server when deleting locally", which would be handy.

> 
> poc
> 
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

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