[imp] hide messages marked for deletion or purge deleted messages

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Mon Jul 21 04:40:21 UTC 2008


Quoting Tim Bannister <Tim.Bannister at manchester.ac.uk>:

> IMP's approach is a little more risky for people who use another client:
> if the other client sets the \Deleted flag but does not use a Trash
> folder, this means that when they delete a message with IMP, they
> expunge all those messages without knowing that they have done this.

This is an incorrect statement.  If deleting by moving to Trash, only  
the deleted message is expunged - any preexisting deleted messages  
will remain in that mailbox.

michael

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