---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2011-06-22 10:40:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 3772
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3772
Searchable id: yorba-bug-3772
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

Message should go to some kind of Trash, and when emptied is deleted from
local storage and the server. A Delete function should be available when Trash
is not.

Related issues:
related to geary - 7626: Warn user when deleting email (Open)
related to geary - 5782: Grayed delete button displayed in All Mail and
Sent (Open)
related to geary - 6613: Generic IMAP server Delete should move to Trash (Open)
related to geary - Feature #6639: Empty Trash feature (Open)
duplicated by geary - Feature #6813: Add shortcut to move to Trash (Duplicate)
duplicated by geary - 7083: No GUI way for deleting conversations? (Duplicate)
duplicated by geary - Feature #5953: Delete messages, skipping Archive (Duplicate)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-08-12 18:08:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Adam Dingle over 2 years ago

  * **Target version** set to _0.1_

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#2

Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.1_</strike>)

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 year ago

  * **Category** set to _client_
  * **Target version** set to _0.3.0_

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson 12 months ago

This has been requested downstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/geary/+bug/1082561

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

Note that completing this ticket (and displaying both buttons in the UI,
grayed out appropriately) would satisfy ticket #5782.

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#6

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Category** changed from _client_ to _client+engine_

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#7

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_

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#8

Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago

This should also work for non-Gmail servers.

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#9

Updated by Felipe Contreras 7 months ago

Jim Nelson wrote:

> Message should go to some kind of Trash, and when emptied is deleted from
local storage and the server.

I don't get it. There is a Trash folder in More that works perfectly fine, the
only thing missing is a keyboard shortcut.

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#10

Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago

The Trash folder might work fine for you, Felipe, but this ticket about
supporting the trash operation across all services and IMAP implementations.

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#11

Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago

As Felipe points out in #6813, for many users this could be as simple as
making a keyboard shortcut (or toolbar button) that moves mail to the existing
Trash folder, without going through archive.

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#12

Updated by Jim Nelson 7 months ago

  * **Subject** changed from _Delete message_ to _Trash / Delete message_
  * **Description** updated (diff)

To elucidate our goal for this ticket:

Geary uses an adaptive system when dealing with servers of differing
capabilities. Our plan is for a Delete button to move the message to a Trash
folder if available. (It should be marked Trash in this case.) If not, then
Delete should do exactly that: hard-delete the message.

Now, in the first case where there is a Trash available, users may still want
to hard-delete a message. In that case, we would still offer Delete, but it
may not take the form of another toolbar button. (Perhaps only available via a
keyboard accelerator or holding down Shift while pressing the button, etc.)
This is the kind of thing we need to discuss when we start working on the
feature.

**In every case, no matter the server, a hard-delete will be available.** However, if a Trash is available, Geary will prefer that one (via default behavior) because it can be undone, whereas the first cannot.

I've updated the description to capture some of the above.

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#13

Updated by John T. 5 months ago

This issue makes Geary unusable for anyone who uses Gmail and (shock horror)
doesn't conflate the completely different concepts of archive and delete.

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#14

Updated by Jim Nelson 5 months ago

You can drag conversations from the middle list to the Trash folder on the
left column. Obviously that's not the most convenient way to work, but it is
available until we have this feature implemented.

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#15

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:25 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3772 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3772

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