[Dovecot] Re: Bug: ThunderBird and dovecot 1rc1

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 3/07/2006 12:52 p.m., Mark Nienberg wrote:
> the.buratino at rambler.ru wrote:
>> It seems to me that correct deletion of message in thunderbird still
>> doesn't work with ThanderBird and dovectot 1rc1. As I've said before
>> messages are not removed phisically from filesystem, just marked for
>> deletetion. Though I'm not sure that this is dovecot bug and not
>> ThunderBird. Anyone to clarify this issue ?
> 
> 
> My users have Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and I don't see this problem.  It's 
> true the message files are not deleted immediately, but they are deleted 
> when Thunderbird closes.  This seems to be true even if Thunderbird's 
> "Tools>Server Settings>Expunge Inbox on Exit" is not checked.
> 
> Using dovecot beta9 and Maildir format.

Have you guys tried changing the settings so that Thunderbird moves deleted 
items to the Trash instead of just marking them as deletec?

That has the effect for me of doing what I think you guys are looking for...

Reuben