[Dovecot] Still having problems deleting messages through IMAP

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Mar 5 22:48:26 EET 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:39 -0500, Doug Eubanks wrote:
> I am using SquirrelMail with the 1.0 releases, and I have even backed up to the latest stable release based on 1.0.  I am using MailDirs.
> 
> When I delete a message, the message still shows up in the message list until either I log out and back in or a new message arrives in that folder.

That's how IMAP works (and all IMAP servers). First the messages are
marked as deleted, then they're really deleted after "expunge". Some
clients also expunge them at logout or when changing mailbox.

I'm pretty sure there's an "expunge" button or something similar in
Squirrelmail.
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