[Dovecot] apple mail, and mails marked as deleted

Jim Tittsler jt at onjapan.net
Tue Feb 22 04:37:15 EET 2005


On Feb 22, 2005, at 04:36, Joerg Lentsch wrote:

> is this a feature or a bug in conjunction with apple mail. i usually 
> use the feature in imap to not delete the emails, but only mark them 
> as deleted, which is a very usefull feature if you use a emailbox with 
> more people accessing it. Im now trying an SME server installation 
> with dovecot 0.99.10, and when i delete a message, it gets marked as 
> deletet, but as soon as i change the mailbox the mail gets also 
> expunged from it. is this a bug fixed in the newer dovecot releases ? 
> or is this a feature that i can configure ?

Do you have Mail.app set to "Compact mailboxes automatically" (on the 
Advanced tab of the preferences for the account you are using)?  When 
that is checked, Mail.app issues an IMAP CLOSE command when you leave a 
mailbox, which removes messages with the \Deleted flag set.


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