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Re: Evolution email (problem?)



On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 12:15 -0400, Default User wrote:
> > If a message is in both of the folders "Inbox" and "All Mail", it
> > CAN
> > NOT be directly deleted from "All Mail". It stays in both folders,
> > with
> > only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that
> > is
> > marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is not even moved to
> > "Trash", which remains empty. 
> 
> Well, one email can't be _in_ two folders. You can have two emails,
> one
> in each folder, and deleting one shouldn't affect the other. Except
> you're using Google's Gmail where 'folders' aren't really folders,
> just
> tags applied in a database. Who knows how it's going to behave when
> they Google maps that onto the IMAP protocol.
> 



Hi, Tixy.

Yes, I think there is never more than one actual message, there is just
one message with one or more "labels" of virtual folders attached to
it, until it is really deleted from Gmail's database.  




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