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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: When moving a message within evolution, for example from the Inbox to a subfolder called test... The message is moved as expected, but a copy of the message appears in the Trash for total confusion. I was poking around in my mailbox the other day, when a notice a whole bunch of my Red Hat bugzilla mails had accidentially been deleted, so I undeleetd the all ofcourse... and moved them to my bugzilla folder... Strangely there were many more of the report messages in my trash so i undele.... I did this 3 times(the the fault of the bug, but myself - I know) before susepcting that something fishing was going on. And so I had to clean uop among the many duplicates. Pretty annoying. I suspect (without even taking a look at the code) that moving a message in evolution is not really a move as much as it is a copy and delete process. Unfortunately, when the process should appear as a move, stuff should not be left in the trash afterwards! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a subfolder to Inbox, called test_tempo(?) 2. Make sure your trash is empty(or that you know what's in it) 3. Move a message from the inbox to test_tempo 4. Take a look in the Trash folder Actual Results: A copy of the just moved message is in the Trash Expected Results: There should be no changes to the contents of the trash folder after a move operation. Additional info:
moving to Phoebe - This was not intended as a Roswell incident(!!) - I just missed Phoebe on the list - sorry for the inconvenience
This is because the message is copied and then deleted from its original folder. The Trash folder is really just a vfolder which shows all deleted messages from any folders, which this would qualify as.
I get it! But this still seems very much inconvenient as it easily leads to confusion, so shouldn't there be some sort of "bypass_trash" option for the delete function, that should be used when moving mails! I really fell that this should be fixed. in one way or the other... Moved messages should not be in the trash as they have not been thrown away! I just don't know where it is supposed to be fixed; in the move function/delete function or perhaps in the Trash view? i'd go with the functions as it seems more correct! If you still think this is not worth fixing, close the bug again - I did not re-open the bug to annoy you but i really think you should give it a second thought. Alternately i will open this as a Ximian/Gnome incident!
Changing it would require major divergence from the upstream codebase which is not something that we're looking to do. And the implementation of the Trash folder is very deliberately as a vfolder of deleted messages in all folders.
Explaination accepted! Thanks for taking a second look at the case!