[MlMt] Trash Can Icon in Message List

[Eric Sharakan]

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.

I know there are hidden preferences to control this behavior.  Here's what I set:

defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmDeleteBehavior -string "markAsDeleted"
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmShowDeletedMessages -bool YES

I've been using those settings for years.  I don't know if Benny ever made them available via the GUI.

BTW, I agree with Sebastian that this is the correct way to use IMAP, "older" or not. :-)

I have an Xfinity email account, and SpamSieve works perfectly well for me on that account, moving messages it thinks are spam to the "Junk" folder, so I don't agree with the hypotheses that this is an Xfinity issue.

-Eric

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