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From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Possible ideas for "inbox zero"
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:35:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si33d38u.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuz4mzul.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:26:10 -0500")

On Dec 14 2015, Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote:
> With IMAP clients, you can move messages to the Trash,
[...]

Some clients may offer this, but it's highly misleading. IMAP doesn't
move messages to trash, it flags them as "deleted". Once you "expunge" a
mailbox, all mail flagged as "deleted" actually gets deleted.

There are two ways to implement a trash folder:

1. A virtual folder that shows only messages flagged as deleted.

2. An actual IMAP folder, and when the client "deletes" something, it
   actually moves the message to this folder. I would count that as
   deliberate abuse of the protocol.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-14 17:28 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-14 22:09 ` Wes Hardaker
2015-12-14 22:26   ` Dan Christensen
2015-12-14 22:52     ` Xavier Maillard
2015-12-15 17:35     ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2015-12-14 22:54   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-14 22:10 ` Dan Christensen
2015-12-14 22:48   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-14 23:05     ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-15 14:58   ` training spam filter (was: Possible ideas for "inbox zero") Peter Münster
2015-12-15 17:17     ` training spam filter Dan Christensen
2015-12-15 19:44     ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-03-07 13:58       ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-03-07 14:11         ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-03-07 15:10           ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-03-07 16:36             ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-14 22:27 ` Possible ideas for "inbox zero" Xavier Maillard
2015-12-14 23:02 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-14 23:24   ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-15  7:52     ` Russ Allbery
2015-12-15 14:55       ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-12-15 18:40         ` Russ Allbery
2015-12-20  0:36     ` Tim Landscheidt
2015-12-25  4:01       ` Tim Landscheidt

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