[Dovecot] Strange behaviour with moving mail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:45 +0100, Remy Zandwijk wrote:
> When moving an email from the first 'Test' folder to the other 'Test' folder,
> it appears that everything works like expected, but when refreshing the
> mailbox, the message is still in the original folder. This happens with a
> number of different mailclients (which are configured with an empty namespace
> setting).
..
> 		When moving the mail, this is the IMAP conversation:
> 		00029 UID COPY 4 TEST
> 		* 2 EXISTS
> 		* 2 RECENT
> 		00029 OK Copy completed.
> 		00030 UID STORE 4 +Flags.silent (\Deleted)
> 		00030 OK Store completed.

That's how moving is done with IMAP. Copy + mark as deleted. Dovecot is
buggy only if the message isn't left marked as deleted. Expunge would
then delete the message entirely.

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