On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Uldis Pakuls wrote:
Jason Wohlford wrote:
Hi All,
I run a little hosting company. I use Dovecot 1.0.10* with IMAP
exclusively. Lots of my customers use Outlook or Outlook Express.
This poses a problem. These programs don't and have absolutely no
workarounds to move messages to a trash folder when deleted. They
only mark the message for deletion. Then, users have to purge the
message to actually delete it. Outlook has a way to hide deleted
messages and also auto-purge them when moving to a different
folder. That just doesn't cut it. (Thanks Microsoft! :-p )So, I'm thinking Dovecot could pick up where Microsoft left off.
It seems to me there needs to be two things done. First, a system
that automatically copy a message marked for deletion from one
folder (e.g. INBOX) to a trash folder (e.g. Trash, Deleted
Messages, etc.) Dovecot's lazy_expunge might already do this, but I
couldn't quite discern it from the wiki docs. Second, a way to only
do this when Outlook or Outlook Express is the one who is deleting
a message.Possibility? Comments?
Yes...outlook is one of the worst imap client I have seen..:)
The problem is that the user's Trash folder was not at the root
level of the email account. Outlook did not know how to deal with
that. Move/create users trash folder to the root level. Look for
trash (deleted items) folder with the correct icon appeared. Correct
icon indicates that Outlook now recognizes trash as trash folder.
I'll have to look into that. That's very interesting. Thanks for the
tip Uldis.
-- Jason Wohlford <jason@wohlford.org> <http://wohlford.org>