Re: creating IMAP Trash folder

[Mark Copper <mcopper@titaninterface.com>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/30/08 18:38, Mark Copper wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a problem losing e-mails, as I posted yesterday.  As near as I
> >can tell, it shouldn't happen.  But it does.
> >
> >So, I would like to at least delay expunging the mail on the server.  If
> >I understand correctly, it should simply have been a matter of setting
> >IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to "1" in /etc/courier/imapd, and restarting
> >the daemons.  That way, when fetchmail connects and collects and
> >expunges email, a copy should be written to the Trash folder, and that
> 
> feftchmail collects and expunges email?
> 
> >copy will be expunged 7 days later.
> >
> >Only trouble is my Maildir didn't have a "Trash" directory.  And
> >eventhough I made one, it still doesn't get a copy of mail expunged from
> >~/Maildir/new.
> 
> How did you create it?
> 
> What about when you delete/expunge from your MUA?
> 
> >Everything else is an out-of-the-box old stable system.
> 

Well, OK, fetchmail only tells the server to delete the messages
("nokeep" option).

I created it with mkdir and chmod to 700.

The actions of mutt, my MUA, only affect my local system.

Thanks!

Mark