[Dovecot] Why my Evolution cannot delete emails in dovecot IMAP folder?
I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote.
So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution, Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to go away from Inbox.
How can I do it?
thanks
i
Igor Chudov wrote:
I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote.
So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution, Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to go away from Inbox.
How can I do it?
Evolution marks mail as deleted. You can then Expunge (ctrl-e) to actually delete them. Personally, this is the way I like it.
I took a quick google to see what the procedure was for changing that to a 'Move to Trash' folder, but it appears Evolution uses virtual folders to emulate a Trash. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-January/134146.html
Maybe the expunge information is enough for your needs? I was assuming you wanted a Trash folder, with data, to be seen across different clients.
Rick
Have you set Edit-Preferences->Mail Preferences Delete Mail empty trash on exit everytime?
Rob
From: dovecot-bounces+rob.frohne=wallawalla.edu@dovecot.org [dovecot-bounces+rob.frohne=wallawalla.edu@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Igor Chudov [igor@chudov.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:39 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Why my Evolution cannot delete emails in dovecot IMAP folder?
I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote.
So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution, Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to go away from Inbox.
How can I do it?
thanks
i
participants (3)
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Igor Chudov
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Rick Romero
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Rob Frohne