On 02/26/18 20:45, Amadeus WM wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:14:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 02/26/18 12:24, stan wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Amadeus WM >>> <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> That's what I've been looking for, seems to be working. Thank you very >>>> much! >>> You're welcome. >>> >>>> I'm glad I wasn't using IMAP. >>> No kidding. >> Not sure why you say that. I don't use claws-mail as my email client. >> But the IMAP clients that I do use are set to move email "deleted" from >> my inbox to Trash. So, if I make a mistake I can simply go into the >> Trash and pull it out. I've never lost emails due to "user" error. >> >> Are you saying that claws-mail is deficient in not having that sort of >> setting? > Oh, no, I didn't blame claws-mail for my error, I've preferred claws over > other clients for years. With IMAP all mail is on the server and if you > delete it, it's gone - unless, as you said, it's configured to go to > trash. I guess that's the case most of the time so I would have been OK > either way. I did not mean to imply that you were blaming claws-mail for the "user" error. You had said "I'm glad I wasn't using IMAP" which to me seemed to indicate you thought if you were using IMAP it would have been impossible to recover your emails. And that is simply untrue. In the email clients I use one can configure the delete action several ways. 1. Immediate Deletion (I've never seen that as the default behavior) 2. Mark for later deletion. The "expunge" command must be issued for actual deletion to take place. Or set, "expunge on exit". 3. Move to trash. Since I don't have any knowledge of claws-mail, and since you seemed very happy to not have been using IMAP, I was wondering if claws did only #1 above which I would classify as a deficiency. FWIW, I use email on multiple platforms on a daily basis with IMAP. I've not used POP in a long time. Unless there as been additions to the protocol, the issue I had with POP is that it had no concept of synchronization. All the mail came down to all of the clients and I found myself deleting the same emails over the multiple platforms I was using. Either that or marking emails as "read". With IMAP that issue doesn't exist. In either case, it good to hear you problem has been resolved. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out
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