[imp] Deleted messages not moved to trash from client

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Apr 8 21:45:32 UTC 2009


Quoting "E. John Messersmith III" <ejm at ejm3.net>:

> I go to Mail Options->Deleting and Moving Messages and I simply  
> check the option "When deleting messages, move them to your Trash  
> folder instead of marking them as deleted?" I select a message and  
> click the Delete link. No marking for deletion; no counting; no  
> nothing - just a simple move from one folder to another - everything  
> is still in one Mailbox. So the "delete" command simply gets  
> translated (or is made equivalent to) a "move" to the trash folder  
> command. The client doesn't have to do anything. As long as the  
> server moves the message to the trash folder the new state is simply  
> reflected (updated) in the client. Why is this so difficult to  
> understand? Is there something obvious I'm missing?
>

You don't say you selected which folder to put the trash in.  If you  
didn't select a folder it doesn't know and aborts the move operation  
leaving the mail in the current folder but deleted.

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