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...f the mbox file, no changes are made to it until the user selects "empty trash", after which point they are expunged. looking at a protocol dump, i see the client setting the deleted flag on the message when they originally delete it. here's an excerpt: <snip> tg7i OK Idle completed. 6gzd UID STORE 30021 +FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen) * 51 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \Recent) UID 30021) 6gzd OK Store completed. stpw IDLE <snip> i'm not too familiar with imap, but it looks like the server is caching the deletion request and then forgetting late...