Hi Andrew,
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:52 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 10:45 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
but my question was what is the logic behind showing the deleted messages with a line through them and putting a copy in the Trash folder? Anybody? Is there some practical usefulness to this
Yes:
1) one reading style is to madly hammer the Delete key; by having the messages still in the source folder with the line through them, you can easily page back up to them if you want to refer to a message you've deleted (ie, in that sitting) but not as yet purged.
2) a variation on the theme - user accidentally hits delete and wants to get message back. Yes, you could haul over to the trash vFolder and go hunting, or you can show deleted messages, up arrow one or two, and undelete, and then re-hide deleted messages.
and (IMHO),
3) since large or complex vFolders tend to be really slow (they reload every time you delete), having deleted messages showing seems to prevent that regeneration of the message list, making them tolerably usable again.
Interesting reasons for having this occur Andrew. I can see where each of the one's you mentioned could be useful to some Evolution users. Maybe it will grow on me :). I guess it's a matter of how one is used to working with email.
Be aware that this is not an Evo-specific or even *nix-specific point. Other mailers (e.g. the Windows version of Thunderbird to name one) do exactly the same thing if you're configured to "delete by marking" rather than "delete by moving to a (real) trash folder". In the case of TB it's actually more frustrating because there's currently no option for hiding marked-for-deletion messages; your only recourse is to purge them.
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