From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support hiding deleted IMAP messages (v3)
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:53:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4iw7knh.fsf@vostro.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <smud208yh1t.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (Greg Troxel's message of "Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:09:34 -0400")
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On Jul 03 2015, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>> It's really pretty simple. There is no concept of a trash folder in
>> IMAP. Deleting a message means marking it with the \Deleted flag. The UA
>> is expected to take that into account when showing the mailbox contents
>> (e.g. by hiding such messsages or showing them crossed out). A message
>> can be physically deleted by "expunging" it (that would correspond to
>> emptying the trash).
>
> OK, but it seems many MUAs have a notion of moving messages to a trash
> folder instead of just IMAP deletion.
>
> Do MUAs that behave the way you say have "trash" mailbox in the UI
> that is really the set of messages in other mailboxes (or inbox)
> that have the \Deleted flag set?
Theoretically they could, in practice I don't know any MUA that does
this. They all have a trash mailbox in the imap account, and move
messages there instead of deleting them.
>> Any trash folder in an IMAP mailbox is a totally ordinary folder, and if
>> there are messages in it it means that they have been moved there (i.e.,
>> not deleted). To empty the trash, you still have to mark the message as
>> \Deleted, *and* then expunge it.
>
> But I empty trash by total-expire in gnus, on the trash mailbox :-)
That's the same thing. By default, deleting in Gnus means setting the
\Delete flag *and* immediately running expunge. But I've submitted
another patch that changes this, so that you can skip the expunge step.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 2:17 Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-03 13:44 ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-03 19:02 ` Nikolaus Rath
2015-07-03 23:09 ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-04 1:53 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
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