[Dovecot] Thinderbird+delete+move to Trash folder

[Lex Brugman]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:18:31 +0100, Papp Tamás <tompos at martos.bme.hu>
wrote:
> Lex Brugman wrote, On 2010. 01. 12. 0:01:
>> [..]
>>
>> I can't think of anything to distinguish this behavior from a normal 
>> delete action by any other mail client and using Shift-Delete in 
>> Thunderbird (server-side), if you know one, please let me know and I 
>> will try to implement it.
>>   
> 
> 
> hi Lex,
> 
> I don't know quite a lot about IMAP.
> 
> I just know courier and cyrus and how the way they work with TB.
> With them TB expunge the message if I delete it by SHIFT+DEL.
> 
> What I can see with courier is if I press DEL, it marks the message as 
> deleted and copy it to Trash. I say this, because it leaves the marked 
> message in the mailbox (maildir) and for example I can see and undelete 
> it by mutt.
> If I press SHIFT+DEL, it does not move the message to Trash, only marks 
> it as deleted.
> 
> I apologize if I was not exact and I didn't use the right phrases.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> tamas
I understand the difference between the actions in the mail client, but 
to be able to do something with this in the plugin I need to know how 
it is different from a normal delete action on the server-side.

Lex