[MlMt] Trash Can Icon in Message List

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 24 Apr 2022, at 22:20, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2022-04-24 at 18:05:23 UTC-0400 (Sun, 24 Apr 2022 18:05:23 -0400)
> Mike Conley <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> I thought MM had a preference to use that method, but I can't find it 
> at the moment.
>
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.

         —Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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