Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)
On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 00:01 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> For those who missed start of the thread: it is dedicated to IMAP
> access
> to Gmail and Evolution behavior.
>
> On 27/04/2023 23:15, Default User wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What will happen if you try to "compact" the "All Mail" folder? I am
> unsure concerning precise name of such action in evolution. In
> thunderbird delete vs. mark for deletion setting is account-wide and
> can
> not be chosen per folder. However even when "delete" is chosen,
> messages
> may be retained in folders till they are automatically compacted or
> this
> action is forced by user.
>
> > Moving the message from "Inbox" to another folder in the same email
> > account, for example "Spam", DOES remove the message from "All
> > Mail".
> > That does not make sense to me!
>
> It is better to experiment with a custom label. Spam or Trash are
> rather
> special cases (perhaps on both sides: client and server).
>
> > I am reluctant to test moving a message from one email account to
> > another one, as I do not do not want to have an another unexpected
> > problem occur, and I do want to keep the email accounts strictly
> > isolated from each other.
>
> Almost certainly messages may be deleted from web UI. Anyway a couple
> of
> test messages should not cause real mess.
>
Hi, Max.
I can not seem to find any information about compacting folders in
Evolution. Which is strange. In Thunderbird, you can manually compact
folders any time, and it will compact automatically by default, with
adjustable parameters.
Perhaps Evolution considers "expunging" (actual deletion) of messages
in the Trash folder, or otherwise marked for deletion (except in the
All Mail folder), as "compacting". I sure hope that Evolution is
actually compacting folders somehow, and just not bothering to explain
when or how.
Anyway, I think I have spent enough time on the Evolution All Mail
folder issue. For now, I will just add one or more "Saved" folders,
and pretty much just ignore the All Mail folder, unless for some reason
I need to move messages from there to other folders.
So, thanks to all who weighed in on the issue.
(BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in
Evolution, I would love to hear about it!)
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