Automatically moving marked mails?

[Clement Hermann (nodens)]

julian at precisium.com a écrit :
> 
> I'd dare suggest some sort of ugly hack whereby an MUA need only create a  
> special folder named e.g
> "_deleteto_Deleted Items" .. which doesn't even need to be subscribed to.
> 
> The existence of such a folder would tell the server to move 'deleted'  
> mail to the "Deleted Items" folder
> (or whatever name followed the magic _deleteto_ prefix)
> 
> It doesn't need to be an 'automatic' fix for outlook out of the box - just  
> one that is relatively easy for helpdesks to talk someone through - or to  
> describe on a web page.
> 
> I guess this sort of hack would give most of you the horrors though!
> 

It is ugly indeed. If you have to walk someone through a solution,
better explain them "add the expunge button to the outlook toolbar, and
click it to permanentely delete messages".
Also, it should be relatively easy to write an outlook plugin that
auto-expunge messages on deletion, possibly copying them to some "Trash"
folder first. You may find one already written : IMAP is not so
uncommon, and this is a common concern abount IMAP and outlook.

The kind of functionality you want could be achieved more elegantly and
more usefully by implementing lemonade-imap-sieve (sieve-like scripting
on the imap operation level, not only on delivery, see
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-sieve-05).

Also, be aware that Outlook's IMAP implementation is commonly considered
as being flawed, and behaving poorly on very large mailboxes. It goes
better with Outlook 2007, or so I'm told, so YMMV.

Regards,

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