On 1/26/10 10:40 AM, "John Ford" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 3) use a trash folder. What people expect more, but leads to issues with
>> multiple clients all using different folders, and of course, the
>> "but-i-deleted-it-no-you-really-didn't-you-have-to-empty-the-trash" calls.
> 
> In this case Letters could examine the IMAP folder structure and look for
> "Trash", "Deleted Items", etc. (ie, all the trash folders used by the
> popular/usual clients) and use whichever folder it finds.  Failing an obvious
> folder Letters would make its own.
> 
> The multiple trash folders issue is definitely a pain but there aren't so many
> options for folder names that we couldn't check for each of them and use one
> so that Letters isn't part of the problem.

That's how it gets done now. Clients have a 'standard' name and if they
can't find that, they create it. Assuming they're allowed to create server
folders. The better clients let you pick

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
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