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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