GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 490505
User-defined behavior for deleting mail (virtual trash vs physical IMAP trash folders)
Last modified: 2012-08-12 15:49:49 UTC
Why is not possible to have an option in the preferences that would allow the user to choose the behaviour of the "delete mail" command ? I'm thinking about two options : 1) The delete as it is now with the IMAP delete flag, the expunge and the virtual Trash folder stuff 2) Physically move deleted mail into a physical IMAP folder called Trash and auto-expunge the deleted mail from its original folder. Advantages : 1) When you use different mail client to access your mail (e.g. : Evolution in the Office, a web client - squirrelmail configured to use Trash and auto-expunge - from outside the office) 2) Similarity with other widely used mail client (Thunderbird or Outlook) that will help the end-user to switch to Evolution 3) Similarity with the disk files and folders manipulations Other information:
Might be doable by the account "Defaults" section which lets you already choose your Sent and Drafts folder.
(In reply to comment #1) > Might be doable by the account "Defaults" section which lets you already choose > your Sent and Drafts folder. Gee ! After more than 4 year finally someone seems to be interested into my report. By the way, since this time I've dropped the thick fat client solution for a webmail based solution.
Yeah, manpower is not unlimited. There's also reports that are more than 10 years old and have never received a comment. Welcome to Open Source.
I would mark this as a duplicate of bug #206061, as adding real Trash/Junk setting to IMAP+ (IMAP has it already) will fix this as well.
Yeah. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 206061 ***