[Dovecot] OT: Deleting email

[Anders]

Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> Next I tell thunderbird to mark certain messages as spam and delete 
> email I marked as spam. I quit it and go back to pine. The spam marked 
> messages which thunderbird swore were deleted are still there.
>

In IMAP, message deletion is a two step process. The second part is 
called "expunge", and you do that in Thunderbird by selecting "Compact" 
on a folder. There are options to do it automatically in Account 
Settings, too. Check it out, and ask further questions on a Thunderbird 
list :-).


Cheers,
Anders.