Tickets :: [#14236] Shift-Delete for Expunge

Summary	Shift-Delete for Expunge
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	Git master
Type	Enhancement
State	Accepted
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	simon.buongiorno (at) gmail (dot) com
Created	02/01/2016 (3390 days ago)
Due
Updated	02/01/2016 (3390 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved
Milestone
Patch	No

02/01/2016 09:53:07 PM	Jan Schneider	State ⇒ Accepted Priority ⇒ 1. Low

02/01/2016 04:20:17 PM	simon (dot) buongiorno (at) gmail (dot) com	Comment #1 State ⇒ New Priority ⇒ 2. Medium Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ Shift-Delete for Expunge Due ⇒ 03/01/2016 Queue ⇒ IMP Milestone ⇒ Patch ⇒ No	Reply to this comment
There was an interesting discussion on the mailing list.. http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20160104/057093.html Hi The ability to permanently delete emails was, looking through the archives, last discussed in 2008. The solution offered was to use virtual trash and then purge. That's not significantly different from going to a physical trash and deleting emails and doesn't offer any finer control. What I'm looking for is either a button/drop-down on the current delete button that permanently deletes the email similar to the way shift+ delete works on desktop clients. This would allow me to delete emails on the fly whilst still keeping those in trash I might wish to archive or undelete at a later date. Jan's reply makes me think it is possible. You can expunge individual messages too, and we already have a method argument in IMP's API to delete and purge individual message. So it should be rather simple to implement (keyhandler, AJAX API method, help text).