knobbysideup

Ahh. Thanks for this. This is ridiculous. WAKE UP PALM! These are basic, easily solved problems.

I guess I'll write a cron job tonight to look for marked for deletion messages on my courier server and purge them. *sigh*.

jp99

Here a link to the full discussion. It is not my statement, but my email provider's statement quoted in this posting. It is easily findable via a search for topics with IMAP in the topic heading on this site.
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That's not what I said. I stated the default is to leave them on the server. You're putting words into my statement that I did not make, and my original post is quite clear. The default IMAP implementation does not purge messages from a server.

Not every client forces you to download it a second time. When I open the email clients I use, the messages deleted via the mobile device are shown in a strikethrough font. A simple menu command to "Purge IMAP deleted" then erases all these from the particular mailbox. Only the message header has been downloaded.

Yes, if the other options of IMAP were implemented, we would be able to do so - and I hope that Palm does this sometime. That does exist in the IMAP protocol, but just not in our Pre's. But the Pre works exactly as a the IMAP default is intended to work - it's not some glitch or programming problem.

Hobbz

I'm a power user with several email accounts and reconfigured one on Outlook as IMAP. Outlook adds new folders for the account instead of using the ones already set up. Plus it does require downloading the email headers prior to purging them.

I'm not too keen on how Outlook restructured the folders because I use the Rules for sorting email into various folders. So in my situation where I'd really like to get email via Pre in real-time, I have 3 options which are all annoying:

1. Spend time to reconfigure PC clients to purge deleted email. Deal with a totally different folder structure.
2. Log into email via website to initiate purge before downloading the email I wish to keep to my PC client.
3. Leave PC client accounts set-up as POP protocol and double-delete email.

Hopefully somebody is able to create a nice patch for Homebrew to solve this instead of waiting on Palm.


@jp99 - looks like I struck a nerve there, easy fella. I wasn't putting words in your mouth. I did see your other post, and in both threads you're coming across as there's nothing wrong, that's the way it's supposed to work.

Well, it is a problem, just like how the core text message application doesn't allow people to forward text messages. (Thanks to Homebrew, we have that functionality.) I'm obviously not the only person in this thread who feels Palm left out basic and important functionality. We just don't know if that was an intentional decision or a simple oversight.

You're missing the point of what people are saying and are instead lecturing us.

I look forward with eager anticipation to see how you dissect this post.