273121 - Button for expunging "deleted" messages in IMAP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 245607

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Christoph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0

I checked all option-bars and menubuttons, but there was no button to expunge
messages, marked as deleted on the IMAP server. A button for Expunging such
mails would be a great option. 
This feature is also available in Mulberry. There it is placed next to the
delete button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use IMAP Server
2.Use Option Mark messages as deleted
3.Can't find an option to expunge

Actual Results:  
the message is marked as deleted, but not deletable

Expected Results:  
the message is marked as deleted, as it is the case right now, and is
expungeable by a button next to the delete button and may be even by a nice
key-combination.

Comment 1

[Eugene Golovachev]

File -> Compact Folders
This works like expunge.
But I think, one needs to create such button and hotkey for this action


(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0
> 
> I checked all option-bars and menubuttons, but there was no button to expunge
> messages, marked as deleted on the IMAP server. A button for Expunging such
> mails would be a great option. 
> This feature is also available in Mulberry. There it is placed next to the
> delete button.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Use IMAP Server
> 2.Use Option Mark messages as deleted
> 3.Can't find an option to expunge
> 
> Actual Results:  
> the message is marked as deleted, but not deletable
> 
> Expected Results:  
> the message is marked as deleted, as it is the case right now, and is
> expungeable by a button next to the delete button and may be even by a nice
> key-combination.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Alan Dobkin]

This functionality is currently available in one or two different extensions
such as compactfolder:

http://compactfolder.mozdev.org/

However, it is a basic necessity for many IMAP users and should be integrated
into the main code.

Comment 4

[David O'Donnell]

File > Compact Folders isn't particularly helpful for IMAP users who are used to the "expunge" term used 
by IMAP servers. Compact Folders also doesn't seem to work consistently (at least not for me using 1.0.7 
or 1.5b2 on Mac OS X 10.4.x)

Comment 5

[Alan Dobkin]

Please excuse the crosspost, but if anyone is interested in discussing the validity of this bug, please read and respond to the topic "IMAP Users Feeling Neglected" in the MozillaZine Thunderbird Features forum:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=329683

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

Dupe od bug 245607 ?

Comment 7

[Adam Becevello]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 245607 to me.