On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:30 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:18 -0500, L. Mark Stone wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 19:42 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Now I am looking for a way to run Expunge on all folders, since running
> > > > expunge on each of more than two hundred folders is not too
> > > > efficient! :-)
> > > 
> > > File->Empty Trash.
> > 
> > Thanks Patrick. I presumed that menu entry only emptied the actual Trash
> > folder.  FWIW, it's "Actions > Empty Trash" on my version of Evo.
> 
> In Evo there is no "actual Trash folder". What you see as Trash is a
> Virtual Folder that contains all messages marked as deleted in all
> folders. This is actually a cool idea since it means it's easy to
> undelete a message and return it to where it came from without
> maintaining additional state -- it never actually left its original
> folder. However it can be confusing if you use other MUAs since they
> won't see the same Trash folder as Evo does.

Good to know; thanks!

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