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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 purely |
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> internal to KMail. Besides, I only have POP3 accounts (which I suppose I |
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> 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 deleted |
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until the server enters the UPDATE stage, when the client quits. The POP3 |
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server does not move the deleted message anywhere, in another mailbox and it |
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will not mirror any moves of messages into local folders on the client. |
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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 the |
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> guts of the program, which is quite fragile enough already. One thing is |
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> being defined twice, or else it's defined once and only called in one of the |
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> two places where it should be, the other being hard coded. |
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> I've noticed both "trash" and "Wastebin" being used at different times over |
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> the last year, which hints at instability of program design and development |
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> 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 this |
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trash folder, or its name. I recall though that sometimes deleted messages |
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end up there, if the IMAP account is offline when I happened to delete the |
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message. From my failing memory I can attest this local folder has been |
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always called "trash", but I could well be mistaken. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |