[imp] delete emails directly and permanently

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Arminas <g.arminas at gmail.com>:

>> It is the server. The client can't do anything about it.  The only way you
>> can prevent this in the client is to disable the setting that allows people
>> to move mail to a Trash folder when deleting messages.

Or maybe use the virtual trash folder rather than a non-virtual trash folder.

>> If you do that then
>> you will force people to use the IMAP method of marking messages to delete
>> and then purge. Depending on your IMAP server this may solve your problem,
>> though that will be determined by how you impose quotas (system quotas or
>> within the IMAP server itself) and how the IMAP server carries out the
>> delete (if it needs to make a backup copy of the folder during the deletion
>> process or not).

Sounds about right...

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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