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Re: O9 IMAP remove mail on server

Subject: Re: O9 IMAP remove mail on server
From: Tim Altman
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:47:02 -0400
Newsgroups: opera.mail+news
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:31:24 +0200, Gilles RONSIN
<nomail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Ian Anderson <ando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, le dim. 23 juil. 2006
>10:30:09, écrivait ceci: 
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>> I use a free fastmail.fm IMAP email address but I download email
>> using Eudora.
>> 
>> Every morning I visit Fastmail using Opera, when I login I find
>> that email already received has a line through it, indicating it
>> was previously downloaded, so I send it to Trash and then empty
>> Trash. 
>> 
>> Plenty of people would like to help so tell us more Gilles.
>
>To check state of all my mails accounts, I like to use MagicMail, which 
>I can list, remove or preview mails directly on mail servers. It is 
>with this tool I can see than mails aren't removed from IMAP server.
>
>To check, I've just trying to reinstall a previous version O8.54. I 
>have setted my IMAP account. At the first logging, all mails have been 
>correctly listed and read attributes are correctly setted. I select a 
>mail, delete it, clear the trash and effectively the mail disappear 
>from the mail server. I profit of this new installation to compare the 
>account.ini files of the two releases.
>If I use Opera 9, all the IMAP mails are listed, I delete one (so it 
>move onto the trash), I clear the trash. The list of mail are correctly 
>erased and another check/send to list deleted mails. But I can see with 
>my magicmail tool than delete mail is still on the server !!! I have 
>just to reinitialize IMAP account (entering setup and valid) or quit 
>and run O9 again to see supposed deleted mails listed back again.
>I have tried to activate Incoming Log File to learn more but I have 
>noticed nothing anormal.

Look for a part where Opera sends the CLOSE or EXPUNGE command to the
server.  That's sent when you preform an "Empty trash."  A little
before that, you should see a STORE_BY_UID_SET command where Opera
marks a message "\Deleted".

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Tim Altman
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Opera Software
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