Manage mailing list in Evolution

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Wed Jan 7 07:15:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:28, Elton Woo wrote:
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> Wolfgang wrote:
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> |On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 13:31, Shi-Ming Chen wrote:
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> 
> |>Thanks for your reply.
> |>The instructions is great, and I wonder that can I only expunge the
> |>fedora mailing list mail in the *trash* folder?
> |>
> |>--
> |>Shi-Ming Chen
> |
> |
> |Glad to be of help. But I'm sorry I don't really know what the
> |difference is between expunge & delete is. Some one else here on this
> 
> In the case of Evolution "delete" really means "mark for"  or "mark as"
> deleted.
> Expunge means to *really delete* the message off the system. FYI,
> Evolution uses
> virtual folders, of which the trash bin is one.
> 
> |
> |list maybe able to shed some light on this subject.
> |
> |I have evolution setup to empty the trash bin, when i exit it. As once I
> |delete a message I want it deleted and completely removed from the
> |system.
> |
> |Wolf
> 
> When you "delete" a message in Evolution it's actually "marked for
> deletion". The process
> is only *truly* complete when you expunge it (delete it by _emptying_
> your trash bin).
> I hope I've made a sufficiently clear explanation.
> 
> Elton ;-)
> 
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Sounds clear enough. Thanks....  So I've noticed that 'empty trash'
seems to do the same thing :-) which was/is what I was using anyway.

Wolf






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