Thanks Angel, Pete, Lorenz, Patrick and Andre! I'll look into the capabilities of the IMAP server to see if it can be updated to support MOVE.
I was just getting a little concerned about my practices when I found myself reading mails out of the deleted items folder and neglecting to mark them read in their assigned by filter rule folders. That's a bit like eating food out of the trash, to be avoided if there are more civilized options :) Dennis On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 10:22 -0500, Dennis Reichel wrote: > With Evolution 3.12.10 (as well as all previous versions I'm aware of), > when email is moved to another folder, be it by filter rule or manually > a duplicate message appears in Trash. > > I believe this is only the case with IMAP mail accounts. Trying to > confirm this, I copied several messages to folders "On this computer" > and moved them about without the messages appearing in Trash. > > This inconsistent behavior suggests that the messages going to Trash are > an artifact of interaction with the remote server via IMAP more so than > an intentional feature. > > Negative effects of this cloning into trash include: > > 1) The end user, when auditing the contents of Trash prior to expunging > may be compelled to confirm that some important and/or unread emails > also reside in another location in the message store. > > 2) This increases the footprint and processing overhead of the message > store, while adding no discernible value. > > 3) It is inconsistent with the operation of POP3 mail accounts and > somewhat disconcerting. > > If it is technically impractical to alter Evolution so this does not > occur, would it not be possible to flag or process these messages > differently so that the end user or a mail filter can quickly and > easily scan Trash and identify which mails reside there as a result > of moving them to another folder? -- Best Regards, Dennis Reichel (dennis * reichel d.t net) _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
