Re: [Evolution] How to delete single messages from the trash bin

[Bradley G Ward <barnoo bigpond com>]

Thanks to everybody who replied.  I get it now and I'll work with it.

I appreciate having it clearly explained.



On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 09:01 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On February 25, 2019 3:10:05 AM MST, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 16:54 -0700, Zan Lynx 
> >
> > No, this is not how Evolution Trash works.
> >
> > The fundamental model in Evolution follows the IMAP paradigm, in
> > which
> > deleted messages are merely marked for deletion, not removed.
> > Actually
> > removing them is called "expunging". In the Evo interface the Trash
> > folder is a search folder by default, so the "deleted" messages
> > stay in
> > their original folders but are merely marked for deletion. Toggle
> > the
> > View->Show Deleted Messages option to see them.
>
>
> As a system administrator in a past life I would have "cleaned"
> user's Trash folders in Exchange without a second thought.
>
> As a programmer writing, say, online backup software I would not save
> files or email in a Trash folder anymore than I would save temporary
> or cache files.
>
> If I ran an online IMAP server, which I do for myself, it would
> automatically purge deleted messages older than a month.
>
> So Evolution *does* work that way. Because it marks a Deleted flag
> and that flag does whatever the server side decides to do.
>
> By no definition of the word "Deleted" does it mean "Keep this until
> I come back for it."