[imp] all mails are deleted after clicking 'purge deleted'

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Tsungching Lin <tsungching at gmail.com>:

> hello,
>
> I just installed horde4-webmail from port tree of FreeBSD 8.2. with
> imap-uw-2007f as imap server. I found that all mail were deleted after
> clicking 'purge deleted'. It made me shock on what it happened. So, I
> tried to create several folders, and purged them again. As I clicked the
> "purge deleted" button, all mails were deleted again, even I didn't mark
> any mail deleted yet. After trying several times, I found that if I
> created a folder as MIX mailbox format, and all mails in that folder
> were deleted. If I create it as traditional MBOX format, it worked fine.
> so I think there must be something wrong with MIX format with
> horde4-webmail. Could someone help me to deal with the problem? thank
> you.

IMP is a MUA (mail user agent).  But design, MUAs have no concept of  
the mail store.  Instead, MUAs interface the mail store through an  
abstraction layer - in IMP's case, either POP3 or IMAP.  So you need  
to look at your POP3/IMAP server to determine the issue.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]