GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 528687
Unable to delete single messages from local Trash folder
Last modified: 2019-01-03 17:39:29 UTC
Downstream bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171344 I try to delete a message from the Trash folder in 'On This Computer'. I select the message and use the keyboard delete button but the message is not deleted. Then I right click on the message and select Delete from the menu that appears and the message is still not deleted. The only way to delete messages from this folder is to right click on the Trash folder and to select Empty Trash and then all of the messages are deleted.
see bug 428429
i normally close such bug reports as WONTFIX.
I think the behavior is correct, maybe the delete buttons/menu options should be disabled when you are in the Trash, because for example IMAP doesn't support expunging of individual message, it's the folder action, if I recall correctly.
See test patches in bug #206061, the IMAP can delete individual messages in a folder, though without some extensions it's kinda ugly hack.
*** Bug 618950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This feature would be highly useful and keeps the Inbox uncluttered. Because this way most mail can go straight to the trash, and then you can selectively delete just the oldest trash, keeping the current trash 'just in case'. I have found that other email clients such as Outlook and Groupwise, amongst I suspect others, have this functionality.
*** Bug 636705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 456558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4) > See test patches in bug #206061, the IMAP can delete individual messages in a > folder, though without some extensions it's kinda ugly hack. 0) It seems the fix for bug #206061 (for IMAP, that is) added some inconsistency to this issue (which I noticed while running 3.4.y). 1) Currently the "Mark the selected messages for deletion" icon puts the messages in a Trash folder (either virtual, or non-virtual). 2) In virtual Trash folder one can still click the "Mark the selected messages for deletion" icon. But it is a NOP: nothing actually happens. Because of that the icon should be disabled for virtual folders (see comment #3). 3) But in non-virtual (IMAP) Trash folders the "Mark the selected messages for deletion" icon is not a NOP: it deletes messages forever. 4) So the the "Mark the selected messages for deletion" icon seems to have three modes: i) put messages in a (virtual or non-virtual) Trash ii) NOP iii) delete forever (5) As far as I can tell Ctrl+D behaves in a similar fashion. So it would have been superfluous to add it in the above text every time.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 301388 ***