Re: creating IMAP Trash folder

Ah, there it is. From Philip Hazel on exim-users:
The Trash folder on the file system begins with a period. ie,
"Maildir/.Trash"

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/30/08 19:11, Mark Copper wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/30/08 18:38, Mark Copper wrote:
Hi,

I have a problem losing e-mails, as I posted yesterday. As near as I
can tell, it shouldn't happen. But it does.

So, I would like to at least delay expunging the mail on the server. If
I understand correctly, it should simply have been a matter of setting
IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to "1" in /etc/courier/imapd, and restarting
the daemons. That way, when fetchmail connects and collects and
expunges email, a copy should be written to the Trash folder, and that
feftchmail collects and expunges email?

copy will be expunged 7 days later.

Only trouble is my Maildir didn't have a "Trash" directory. And
eventhough I made one, it still doesn't get a copy of mail expunged from
~/Maildir/new.
How did you create it?

What about when you delete/expunge from your MUA?

Everything else is an out-of-the-box old stable system.

Well, OK, fetchmail only tells the server to delete the messages
("nokeep" option).

I created it with mkdir and chmod to 700.

The actions of mutt, my MUA, only affect my local system.

You seem to be treating IMAP like it's POP.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no
hook beneath it." -- Thomas Jefferson


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