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Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove



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On 02/10/07 05:12, Arc Roca wrote:
> Exploring my system, I decided to open Inbox with mutt
> -f, and discovered that no message that I had deleted
> had really been deleted. They were all there, from the
> very first, in the same file Inbox. Invisible from
> icedove interface (probably through tagging), but
> clearly visible and present from mutt. Freaking!!!
> 
> I would have expected this in a windows application,
> but not in one of ours!!!
> 
> I had implemented icedove in my system to make it
> easier for other people to use, but I am going back to
> mutt w/o doubt.

Your goal is typical, but your implementation is "inadequate".
Thus, it doesn't work.  And you blame someone else.  Very discouraging.

IMAP is designed for what you what you want to do.  Run an imapd on
your box (courier-imap is popular and easy) and tell you MUA to use
the IMAP protocol instead of mbox.
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