[Tickets #7644] Re: Show empty folder icon only in spam or trash folders

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7644
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  Ticket             | 7644
  Updated By         | leena.heino at uta.fi
  Summary            | Show empty folder icon only in spam or trash folders
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 4.3
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              | 1
  Owners             |
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leena.heino at uta.fi (2008-11-05 13:55) wrote:

> Why?  Just as an example, some users may have mailboxes set up for
> mailing lists and want an easy way to remove all messages from the
> mailing list.

At least some of our users confused this icon with expunge function.  
Whereby they
ended up emptying their inboxes. Clicking this icon does warn user the  
whole folder will be emptied, but this still does not seem to stop  
them from emptying their inboxes by mistake.

I chose the trash and spam to mimic the behavior in gmail where you  
can empty the whole spam folder with one click.

Perhaps a better option might be that this is icon is not shown in  
inbox, but might be shown in other mailboxes. Or function behind this  
icon is configurable and you could program it to do expunge instead of  
empty. Or the confirmation message has some sort of delay until the  
user is able to press ok.