On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Richard Bang wrote: > I'm getting flack from my mail server clients because IMAP marked as > deleted and then expunges. Basically they don't want to have to manually > copy all the messages to a trash can folder. They like the way their POP > clients work, moving everything they delete into a deleted items folder > (trash).
That's like saying, "I don't like this SMTP, because it's not X.400." There is no such thing as "trash" in POP. POP has the same delete/expunge model as IMAP, only in a more primitive fashion. Any "trash" in a POP client is done by the client on the local disk. Nothing prevents an IMAP client from doing the same. Any IMAP server that moves deleted messages to a mailbox called Trash without the client's permission is broken. Implement the protocol, not what you think should be the protocol. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
