327374 - Offline options not sufficient

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359284

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Kelem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I have an Imap mailbox. Under Account Settings/Offline & Disk Space, the only options are:
Don't delete any messages
Delete all but the last n messages
Delete messages more than n days old
Always delete read messages.

None of these are what I want.  Deleted messages stay in the folder.  I want deleted/moved messages out of my inbox.  None of those options do that.
I don't want mail deleted based on date, number of messages, or whether I read them.  I want messages deleted from my inbox when (a) I delete them (duh), or (b) when I move them somewhere else.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Maybe you mean bug 265472? (setting would be global though)

Comment 2

[Steve Kelem]

This request is separate from asking for an Expunge button.

This request is asking for another option under Account Settings/Offline & Disk Space that is
"Expunge messages that are marked for deletion or moved to another folder."
This would achieve the same functionality that exists on POP accounts.

Thanks

Comment 3

[Steve Simms]

The behavior you want seems to be in Thunderbird 2.x.  When I move or delete a message (delete is set to move to Trash), the message is expunged immediately.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I don't think that's true. You have to set a hidden pref to get that to happen, and I'm not sure that pref is even in 2.0

Comment 5

[Steve Simms]

Ack, you're right.  I wasn't checking it properly.  Reopening.