Hello Patrick, On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:53:48 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 21:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > 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. > > Claws at one time used (3) as the default. Not sure if it still does. I > remember pointing out to the devs that IMAP mail was originally > designed to use (2) so that should be the default (as it is in > Evolution) since it's a) it's more efficient in both space and time > server-side, and b) it makes it trivial to implement undelete without > having to restore a bunch of state. They said they would look into it > but I don't know if anything happened as I only flirted with Claws > briefly. However most email clients don't understand this, so AFAIK the > IMAP spec was modified to add the option of a real Trash folder. When did you contact the Claws Mail team to discuss that point? What was the Claws Mail version at that time? Did you file a request on the relevant bugzilla or was it on IRC or to the users mailing-list? Regards, -- wwp
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