Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 09:07:50 Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Sorry gents, but this has nothing to do with IMAP: the phenomenon is purely
> internal to KMail. Besides, I only have POP3 accounts (which I suppose I
> could have said before but it didn't seem significant).

Ahh!  POP3 is just a bucket of messages.  It does not have a concept of 
mailboxes/folders (not on the server anyway).  Local folders and messages 
being dropped into them is a manual exercise by the user, or achieved by 
client filters.  None of this is duplicated on the server.

When you download a message and mark it for deletion, it is not not deleted 
until the server enters the UPDATE stage, when the client quits.  The POP3 
server does not move the deleted message anywhere, in another mailbox and it 
will not mirror any moves of messages into local folders on the client.


> Alan is closest: it's a matter of string contents somewhere in the KMail
> code. I just don't know whereabouts - nor do I want to fiddle around in the
> guts of the program, which is quite fragile enough already. One thing is
> being defined twice, or else it's defined once and only called in one of the
> two places where it should be, the other being hard coded.
> 
> I've noticed both "trash" and "Wastebin" being used at different times over
> the last year, which hints at instability of program design and development
> management systems.

Interestingly, my "Local Folders" contains a "trash" folder.  I don't use 
local folders (all my accounts are IMAP4) so I haven't paid attention to this 
trash folder, or its name.  I recall though that sometimes deleted messages 
end up there, if the IMAP account is offline when I happened to delete the 
message.  From my failing memory I can attest this local folder has been 
always called "trash", but I could well be mistaken.
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Regards,
Mick

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