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[Jochen Fahrner <13983@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boleslaw,  you misunderstand. A protocol has nothing to do with a user interface. These are two distinct things.
Look at the POP-protocol: it has no folders, it has no trash and it is not designed to leave mail on the server. But many mail clients have local folders, local trash, and leave mail on the server. The protocol is only the transport mechanism for mail, it has nothing to do with the way a mail client offers mail to the user.

Now look at IMAP. Many old clients used it similar as POP, they fetched
mail from the server as they did with POP. Folders were only local in
these old clients. Modern clients work different, they leave mail on the
server, they use folders on the server, and since trash is only a normal
folder, they can move deleted mails to the trash folder on the server.
Why should they restrict the user interface to the technical limits of
the underlying protocol? There is no reason to do that.

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Title:
  Evolution virtual trash / "real" trash on IMAP server

Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
  Confirmed
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi,

  This bug refer to the bug 12439 of evolution
  (http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6061).
  Evolution developpers don't seems to understand the importance of this bug. So,
  evolution being the main Ubuntu MUA, I think this problem concerne Ubuntu.

  I explain you quickly the problem :
  The evolution Trash is a virtual folder showing mails marked as DELETED on IMAP
  server.
  In a "one user" on "one desktop" and "one OS", it's probably a really good think
  for all reasons given by evolution team.

  But in my environnement : multiple user, multiple OSes, multiple MUA, ... it's a
  critical probleme.
  For security reason (too easy to definitively destroy a mail) user the MUA must
  copy deleted mail in a real Trash mailbox on the IMAP server.

  I can use another MUA like thunderbird, but I loose the really good  integration
   of evolution in ubuntu.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061

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