[dev] imp "empty trash" modifications

[Marcus I. Ryan]

Most IMAP readers will allow you to set up the option much like IMP
does.  If it doesn't, then the administrator should set and lock the IMP
options to match the primary mail system.

For places that do use exclusively IMP, I've seen more confusion because
the items are there but don't affect their trash can.  Most people don't
understand that IMAP even supports a "deleted" flag...nor what a deleted
flag means...

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> Zitat von "Marcus I. Ryan" <marcus@riboflavin.net>:
> 
> > Regardless, I agree that the Hide Deleted | Purge deleted shouldn't
> be
> > there if the user has use_trash set.  If they are using another
> reader
> > that leaves deleted messages in their mailbox, they can use that
> reader
> > to get rid of them.  If they have hide_deleted turned on and
> use_trash
> > set, they'll never even know they're there...
> 
> I don't agree. I think a common scenario how IMP is used is that
> people 
> access their mails in the LAN with a common mail reader and use IMP
> while 
> they're on the road.
> 
> So it might happen more often than we think that they have one mail
> reader 
> that uses a trash folder and another that uses the deleted flag.
> Making the 
> purge deleted action only available in IMP if the user doesn't use
> the 
> trash folder preference can confuse the users in these cases.
> 
> Jan.
> 
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