Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
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On 02/10/07 08:08, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> 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!!!
>
>> 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.
>
> I've never used anything but mutt. Surely someone doesn't have to run
> imapd just so that their mail gets deleted when they tell a MUA to
> delete a mail. I'd call that a bug.
Apparently he's not telling Icedove to "Empty Trash on Exit".
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