[imp] dimp and deleting messages

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Dominique LALOT <dom.lalot at gmail.com>:

> gimili a écrit :
>> LALOT Dominique wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2008/12/12 gimili <gimili17 at gmail.com <mailto:gimili17 at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>>    Dominique LALOT wrote:
>>>
>>>          * If I use thunderbird: it moves the mail in trash as dimp,
>>>        but
>>>
>>>            leaves the original mail in deleted state. So we still
>>>        see that
>>>            mail in grey in dimp until cyrus purges the day after
>>>            I say, OK, there is a hide deleted option:
>>>            $_prefs['delhide'] = array(
>>>                'value' => 1,
>>>                'locked' => true,
>>>                'shared' => false,
>>>             But it's not working!
>>>
>>>        I suppose that with move to trash, I have no "Purge deleted"
>>>        button, and worst, Hide deleted is lacking
>>>
>>>    If you set thunderbird to "Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit" at
>>>    least is goes away when you close thunderbird.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, we can do that, but if you have a lot of end users, it's  
>>> better if you have the right default setup options in horde  
>>> working with default thunderbird options and therefore less support!
>> I just tried it on my profile and if you set imp to hide the trash  
>> instead of move it then it seems to work in the same manner as  
>> thunderbird.  I was having the same issue as you until I did that.   
>> I think the hiding pref does not work if you tick off  "When  
>> deleting messages, move them to your Trash folder instead of  
>> marking them as deleted?" in imp.
>>
>> To me it might be nice to set imp to move the trash to the trash  
>> folder and also have the hiding pref work so that imp would get  
>> along better with thunderbird?  Perhaps I am missing something  
>> though.
> Yes, that's what I wanted to do and I'm glad you notice the same behaviour.

There has been discussion about this on the list in the past.  Simply  
put - IMP can't guess what another mail agent does/wants to do.  If  
Thunderbird isn't cleaning up after itself, that's an issue in that app.

michael

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