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On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 21:52:19 Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 09:07:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Sorry gents, but this has nothing to do with IMAP: the phenomenon is |
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> > purely internal to KMail. Besides, I only have POP3 accounts (which I |
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> > suppose I could have said before but it didn't seem significant). |
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> Ahh! POP3 is just a bucket of messages. It does not have a concept of |
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> mailboxes/folders (not on the server anyway). Local folders and messages |
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> being dropped into them is a manual exercise by the user, or achieved by |
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> client filters. None of this is duplicated on the server. |
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> When you download a message and mark it for deletion, it is not not |
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> deleted until the server enters the UPDATE stage, when the client quits. |
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> The POP3 server does not move the deleted message anywhere, in another |
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> mailbox and it will not mirror any moves of messages into local folders |
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> on the client. |
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Yes, of course I know all that. It's why I see the problem lying at KMail's |
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door. |
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> > Alan is closest: it's a matter of string contents somewhere in the KMail |
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> > code. I just don't know whereabouts - nor do I want to fiddle around in |
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> > the guts of the program, which is quite fragile enough already. One |
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> > thing is being defined twice, or else it's defined once and only called |
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> > in one of the two places where it should be, the other being hard |
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> > coded. |
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> > I've noticed both "trash" and "Wastebin" being used at different times |
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> > over the last year, which hints at instability of program design and |
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> > development management systems. |
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> Interestingly, my "Local Folders" contains a "trash" folder. I don't use |
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> local folders (all my accounts are IMAP4) so I haven't paid attention to |
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> this trash folder, or its name. I recall though that sometimes deleted |
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> messages end up there, if the IMAP account is offline when I happened to |
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> delete the message. From my failing memory I can attest this local |
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> folder has been always called "trash", but I could well be mistaken. |
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I wonder now whether it was worth starting this thread at all. :P |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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