[imp] Behavior of the virtual trash folder

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Jens Wahnes <wahnes at uni-koeln.de>:

> Hi,
>
> some of our users are using the "Use Virtual Trash" setting in IMP's
> "Deleting and Moving Messages" section and have had trouble using it
> effectively.  Now I wonder how that virtual trash folder is supposed to
> work.
>
> When using that setting, messaged marked as deleted are shown in the
> Virtual Trash folder and not in the regular folder, e.g. Inbox.  So
> far, so good.  However, how is one supposed to permanently delete
> messages with this setting turned on?  The "Purge Deleted" entry is not
> shown in the "Other" menu where it is normally located when there is no
> trash folder.  Also, the Virtual Trash folder has got no context menu
> which would allow one to "Empty" it like one would do with the "normal"
> trash folder.  In fact, unless I'm mistaken, there seems to be code to
> forbid emptying the virtual trash folder (around line 290 of
> imp/lib/Mailbox.php).
>
> So how is this intended to work?  At the moment, as far as I could see,
> the only way to permanently delete messages with the Virtual Trash
> folder turned on is to turn it off.  Is it a bug that the "Purge
> deleted" item is missing when the Virtual Trash function is turned on?
> Or should there be a context menu that allows one to empty the virtual
> trash?
>
> From a user's perspective, I'd think the latter is more intuitive (when
> having a Trash folder at all, I would like to be able to empty it), but
> then it's probably rather difficult to implement since the Virtual
> Trash seems to be a search for all messages marked as deleted, and in
> order to permanently delete them all, all folders that contain at least
> one deleted message would have to be expunged.
>
>
> Jens

I think it is a bug (see https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14006)
but this has not been confirmed.

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