[plug] deleting mail using imap

[Russ Powers]

Bill, Cameron, Micheal, thank you gentlemen. You were all correct.

It was a stupid question after all. I had kmail configured to empty trash on 
exit and hadn't shut down my computer in a few days. As soon as I emptied the 
trash on my local machine it removed the email on the server.

Very embarrassing, lucky it's a Saturday and nobody is looking.  ;-)

Thanks.

--- William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote: 
> 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.
> > > > 

-- 
Regards,
Russ