dovecot - Oct 2008 - Why my Evolution cannot delete emails in dovecot IMAP folder?

I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on
localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I
can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote. 

So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot
delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution,
Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still
there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to
go away from Inbox. 

How can I do it? 

thanks

i

Igor Chudov wrote:
> I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on
> localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I
> can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote. 
>
> So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot
> delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution,
> Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still
> there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to
> go away from Inbox. 
>
> How can I do it? 
>   
Evolution marks mail as deleted.  You can then Expunge (ctrl-e) to 
actually delete them.  Personally, this is the way I like it. 

I took a quick google to see what the procedure was for changing that to 
a 'Move to Trash' folder, but it appears Evolution uses virtual folders 
to emulate a Trash. 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-January/134146.html

Maybe the expunge information is enough for your needs?  I was assuming 
you wanted a Trash folder, with data, to be seen across different clients.

Rick

Have you set Edit-Preferences->Mail Preferences Delete Mail empty trash on
exit everytime?

Rob
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Subject: [Dovecot] Why my Evolution cannot delete emails in dovecot IMAP       
folder?

I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on
localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I
can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote.

So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot
delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution,
Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still
there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to
go away from Inbox.

How can I do it?

thanks

i