[Dovecot] lazy_expunge and moving messages

[Lutz Preßler]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:29 +0200, Lutz Preßler wrote:
> > Maybe it's possible to extend the plugin to optionally hook into the COPY
> > operation, remember it somewhere with the message (simply as special/
> > configurable IMAP flag?), and then really expunge messages with this
> > flag set. What do you think?
> 
> Tricky. Deleting messages is done by many clients by moving to Trash. In
> such situation it's better to have the original messages in the original
> mailbox, otherwise everything would end up in Trash.
I think that the lazy_expunge plugin is especially usefull for users not
using Trash folders (of course, it helps against accidental deletions with
Trash folders purged automatically on exit...). "move detection" should
be optional, of course. 

Lutz