Tickets :: Comment on [#12007] Messages marked for deletion do not catch changes to the seen flag.

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Comment	> Thanks for the detailed response - one last note for posterity below > for others finding this annoying (like I did!) > >> >> No, because that would put the client and the server in an >> inconsistent state. There is a command called SOFTDELETE that could >> be abused for this purpose, but it still needs to be implemented (and >> is a current TODO listed in the library docs). It's normally used for >> removing messages from the client (email or appointments) that fall >> outside of the client's configured time window. > > Looking forward to SoftDelete being implemented then :) > > I did some checking on the behaviour of the Mac client I use > (Mountain Lion, Mac Mail) and found it effectively does the following; > > 1. Moves the message to Trash folder > 2. Marks message as 'deleted' > > It then leaves the message in this state until, depending on > settings, it decides to Expunge. I couldn't find a way to make a step > 3. above being 'expunge' which is what I'd like so I sorted it out > server side with Dovecot like so; > > #!/bin/sh > doveadm expunge -A mailbox Inbox DELETED > > Set up as a cron job to run hourly. Works a treat in my scenario > although other mail clients may well work differently making this not > work so well...
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