[imp] delete emails directly and permanently

Arminas g.arminas at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 17:36:20 UTC 2008


Yes it is true, using virtual trash folder solves the problem. But
I've disabled this feature, so workaround is needed then.

2008/8/27 Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> 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...
>
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