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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">On 24 Apr 2022, at 22:20, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">On 2022-04-24 at 18:05:23 UTC-0400 (Sun, 24 Apr 2022 18:05:23 -0400)
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Mike Conley <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
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is rumored to have said:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">I guess I was not so much interested in the peculiarities of the Xfinity IMAP server as I was in what exactly the trash can icon in the message list meant. Anyone know?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">It sounds like MM is marking messages as deleted rather than moving them to whichever mailbox in the account is being used as the "Trash" mailbox. That is an older model for how deletion is done in IMAP, but I'm not sure why MM would do that for one account and not others or why it would show the deleted but not yet expunged messages.</p>
<p dir="auto">I thought MM had a preference to use that method, but I can't find it at the moment.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">IMAP has all sorts of optional commands; it may be that during the initial negotiation, MailMate learns that Xfinity doesn't have the preferred delete option.</p>
<p dir="auto"> —Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb" style="color: #3983C4;">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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