Courier IMAP Functionality: Delete w/o Marking (similar to Gmail IMAP)?

LiquidKernel · 04-23-2010, 02:15 PM

I've been running Courier IMAP for many years now, but when I added gmail's IMAP to my Outlook I noticed something interesting: when you delete a message, it gets thrown into the trash instantly.

With Courier IMAP (or any other IMAP server, for that matter), when you delete, it first marks it for deletion. Then after you Purge Deleted Messages it either gets rid of them or moves them to trash.

Is there a way to implement this in Courier IMAP?

Berhanie · 04-24-2010, 11:10 AM

per protocol, imap stores the \Deleted flag and deletes on subsequent EXPUNGE. i believe the rest is implemented on the client side. E.g. thunderbird configuration has the following options for delete: move to trash (or the folder of your choice), mark as deleted, remove immediately.