[plug] deleting mail using imap

[William Kenworthy]

With imap, you are not reading/deleting your emails locally (unless you
are doing "offline" stuff some mail readers allow), but on the server -
the client works through a socket to the imap server.  Deletion usually
just sets a flag, so its shows as "deleted".  "Emptying the trash" as
evolution calls it, clears our the deleted messages.

In pine and evolution you can choose to either see, or not see these
messages.  Evolution can be set to "empty tash on exit", and I think
pine asks if you want to do this when you select extit.

Varies a LOT!

BillK

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:14, Russ Powers wrote:
> --- Michael <quadfour at iinet.net.au> wrote: 
> > Is this a troll?
> 
> Yeah, I know it sounds stupid and it is the weekend, but I'm not trolling. 
> Maybe I didn't configure something correctly?
> 
> If you tell me that when I delete my emails locally they should be deleted on 
> the server then I will assume I made a configuration error and go find it.
> 
> > 
> > Michael Collard
> > 
> > On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Russ Powers wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a courier-imap server setup to provide access to my maildir on my 
> > > server. It works fine, I can read mail and delete the local copies of the 
> > > mail. My question is, how do I delete mail messages on the actual server?
> > Can 
> > > it be done remotely? 
> > > 
> > > I'm using kmail.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > >