True IMAP Trash Folder

[Matt]

Louis LeBlanc wrote:

>On 02/02/04 10:27 AM, Matt Juszczak sat at the `puter and typed:
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>>Gary wrote:
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>>Gary,
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>>>Hi Matt,
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>>>On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:20:09 -0500 UTC (2/2/2004, 9:20 AM -0600 UTC my
>>>time), Matt Juszczak wrote:
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>>>M> Does anyone know of a mail client that supports a true IMAP trash
>>>M> folder?  Evolution doesn't, and so I use evolution on three different
>>>M> machines and if I have deleted messages I have to check all three
>>>M> machines sometimes to find it.
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>>>There is no trash folder in the IMAP protocol itself.. Removing mail is a
>>>two step process, first of deleting it, and second of purging the deleted
>>>mail.
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>>I understand now.  Thanks.  So do you know of a mail client that 
>>supports "Deleting Items" to a folder called "Trash" on the IMAP 
>>server?  Right now I have evolution and if I delete mail it puts it into 
>>a local trash folder, but I dont see an option to "Copy deleted mail to 
>>folder <blah> on mail server" or something like that.
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>I use mutt with an imap server.  I've tied macros to specific keys
>that save messages to INBOX.trash, which effectively deletes them from
>the current folder.  I go to the .trash folder and use 'D' to clean it
>out on a regular basis, sometimes finding one or two that I didn't
>want to delete.  It requires folder hooks to change the underlying
>behavior for the 'd', '^d' and 'D' keys based on the current folder,
>but it works like a charm.
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>The mutt site documents how to do most of this, but if you like, I can
>dig up my macros for you.
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>HTH
>Lou
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Lou,

I think I got it covered.  My new solution seems to work.  Thanks though!

-Matt