[horde] ActiveSync client displays messages that were deleted in IMAP

Kevin kevo at gatorgraphics.com
Sat Aug 11 18:02:56 UTC 2018


> On Aug 11, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Vijay Sankar <vsankar at foretell.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Quoting Kevin <kevo at gatorgraphics.com>:
> 
>> So I've run into another issue with ActiveSync on my iPhone. It seems that deleting a message in Mail on the Mac through IMAP does not cause the iPhone to delete the message or remove it from display.
>> 
>> When I open the webmail client, the messages show as being marked for deletion, they have a line through them.
>> 
>> Is this a setting somewhere to make ActiveSync not display messages that are marked as deleted, or is this a bug of some sort?
>> 
>> I have another account on another server that uses dovecot with zpush and I'm not sure how it is setup specifically but on that account any deleted messages in the IMAP folder will disappear from the phone display when you open the mailbox. That is what I was expecting with the horde activesync, but they just hang around.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
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> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Did you try the following?
> 
> In Preferences for Mail on the webmail client, there is a checkbox for
> 
> "Move deleted messages to your Trash mailbox instead of marking them as deleted in the current mailbox"

Thanks for the suggestion, but the issue is when using Mail.app on Mac OS X. It's behavior is to copy the message to trash and mark it deleted in the inbox. I think it only expunges the mail from the inbox when you quit it. The thing is, most people tend to leave the Mail app running perpetually.

- Kevin


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