Tickets :: Comment on [#3030] Trouble using vtrash

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Comment	>>> You wouldn't happen to be using 'thread' sorting, are you? With > >>> thread sorting, we must always display all deleted messages in the > >>> folder, no matter if we are using virtual trash or not. > >> > >> Is there really now way to work around that, even if not in an > >> elegant way? This is really unintuitive and confusing for the users > >> (including myself). > > > > I agree, but unfortunately there is no elegant way of working around > this. Simple fact is imap_thread() does not support a search > parameter so you have to do threading on the entire mailbox. And > it's not as simple as removing deleted entries from the thread list - > those deleted entries may radically change the shape/nature of the > thread so simply trying to do some kind of decrement of the level of > child messages horribly breaks the threading tree. > > > > Another option would be to build our own thread parsing function > using IMAP_Client::. But that would have the disadvantage of > requiring us to open a second connection to the IMAP server along > with all the overhead of having to load all code associated with > IMAP_Client::. > > > > The last option would be the most radical and that would be to > disable the thread sorting (and reverting to subject sorting) if not > using a trash mailbox and hiding deleted messages.
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