[Tickets #12473] Re: Allow undelete message option

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/12473
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  Ticket             | 12473
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Allow undelete message option
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2013-07-18 13:20) wrote:

> Completely disagree. By doing this you prevent users from accessing  
> any message they may have accidentally deleted - regardless of which  
> interface this was done in. I understand the UI argument you are  
> making, but forcing a user to logout and attempt to login to a  
> different view on their mobile device if an email is accidentally  
> deleted is absurd.

I disagree with this logic.  From a practical standpoint, people  
simply DON'T delete messages accidentally.  And if this is truly a  
problem, then use a Trash mailbox.  Problem solved (the correct way).

Again - this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the smartmobile  
view is.  It is NOT intended to be a complete mail application.  It is  
meant to quickly view messages and do extremely basic actions.   
Anything more is going beyond the scope of what is available given the  
UI.

As mentioned, the paradigm of leaving messages in the current mailbox  
simply does not work when you have a minimal UI.  And that's not just  
me talking - while we were coming up with the new MOVE IMAP extension,  
*nobody* does it this way anymore.  Everybody uses a Trash mailbox  
these days, precisely because the nature of accessing mailboxes has  
changed and marking in place doesn't work once you move beyond the  
idea of a connected mailbox that always has access to the full list of  
messages in a mailbox.