GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316375
can't delete messages in trash
Last modified: 2005-09-17 12:10:30 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15430 "I'm using the Breezy preview release in combination with Evolution 2.4.0 I was amazed when I discovered that I can't delete e-mail messages in the trash, i.e. delete e-mail messages permanently. I simply go to the trash, right click a message and choose delete, nothing happens? I'm aware that there is an option in Evolution's preferences to empty the trash folders on exit, but that's simply not what I want, I want to decide which messages located in the trash I want to delete and which not. Evolution keeps surprising me, it's probably the most advanced groupware suite/e-mail client available on Linux, but it lacks the most basic things such as autodownloading of messages at startup (I found out that it will do that when you enable the option to automatically check for messages every x minutes, but to me that's a totally different option), and deleting messages from the trash. If the option to delete messages from does exist I'm very sorry for reporting this, I took some time to figure it out but I couldn't find such an option."
messages in trash are already deleted, that's why you simply cannot delete them one more time... ;-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301388 ***
I was the person who originally posted this in the Ubuntu bugzilla. Of course a message which is in the trash is already deleted, but when I delete a message in the trash I expect a message to be PERMANENTY deleted. Why do I expect that? Because every other e-mail client I've ever used behaves like that, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Kontact, you name it. The all behave that way, you delete a message, then it goes to the trash, then you delete it again in the trash, then it's permanently deleted. Why does Evolution have to deviate from the standard when there is no reason to? When I first started using Evolution, I right-clicked a message in the trash and chose "Delete". But it simply didn't delete the message. Later I was informed that I had to use "Expunge" from the menu "Folder" to permanently delete everything in the trash. The folder menu is quite a strange place for such a common task. No offense meant, but it's ridiculous that Evolution already is at version 2.4.0 when it is so hard for a new user to delete messages in the trash permanently.