thunderbird-38.4.0-1.fc22.x86_64

[jd1008]

On 01/12/2016 04:12 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 01/12/2016 01:50 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/12/2016 02:11 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> On 13/01/16 07:27, jd1008 wrote:
>>>> Edit -> Undo Delete Message
>>>> does not bring deleted message back to Inbox
>>>>
>>>> Tried it many times to no avail.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>>>
>>> Just further to my previous response, I have now found the "restored"
>>> message, but the restore moved it to the Inbox of a different account
>>> to the one it was deleted from.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Steve
>> How wonderful! Absolutely MAGICAL! :) :)
>> Hey, you couldn't get this behavior even if you had to pay for it :) :)
>
> I think the "undelete" thing pushes the messages from the deleted
> folder to the inbox of the default account (the one in boldface). It
> may also depend on what kind of mail account the message was deleted
> from. Deleting from a POP3 account makes it a bit more difficult to
> reinsert the message into the inbox (POP3 doesn't have folders or a
> copy command). The folders Thunderbird presents on your desktop are
> local to your machine--they don't exist on the POP server. IMAP does
> have folders and a copy command, so it's easy.
For POP3, deleting a message does not purge it from the Inbox, it only 
marks it as deleted.
That is why you have to Right-Click Inbox -> Compact
in order to remove it from Inbox.
At any rate, version 31 seems to take care of the problem.