Trash behaviour .mac webmail vs Apple Mail.app imap

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Trash behaviour .mac webmail vs Apple Mail.app imap

Ok,
I have imap .mac set up. I use Apple Mail and Safari/webmail to access.
I have noted the following:
The trash can on the Apple webmail does not mirror the trash in Apple Mail.
1.) I access webmail via Safari and move a file to the trash.
2.) I then logout, and open Apple Mail.app
3.) I look in the trash can there: that message is not reflected there, but Apple Mail has a new mailbox called "deleted messages" that does reflect the trash on the Safari/webmail access.

In Mail.app, I have Mailbox behaviors set to "move deleted messages to trash," but do not have "store deleted messages on server" selected. I also have "permanently removed deleted messages" set to never as I like to be able to choose when I need to do this.

Here is the thing, if you reverse this, move a message while viewing in Apple Mail to trash can, then open webmail interface, it does not show up in that trash can.

It seems, that there is some wierdness in how trash is handled in each.

Powerbook G4 17" 1 GHz PowerPC (2003 model), Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1 GB DDR SDRAM

Posted on Apr 14, 2007 2:51 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 14, 2007 3:53 PM in response to powerbook1701

What do you find weird about the behavior you’ve described? That’s exactly how it is supposed to work if you tell Mail to store deleted messages locally instead of on the server, i.e. if Store deleted messages on the server is OFF, then the Trash used by Mail cannot be the same as the (server-stored) Trash used by webmail...

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powerbook1701 Author

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Apr 15, 2007 5:13 PM in response to David Gimeno Gost

I was just under the impression that, with imap, the trash in apple mail would reflect the trash on webmail.
Right now, I have in Apple mail prefs: "move deleted messages to the trash mailbox" selected, "store deleted messages on the server" not selected, and "permanently erase deleted messages on server" set to never.

Like I said, I just thought imap accounts would act this way:
No matter is I move a message to the trash from webmail or apple mail, I thought it would be reflected in each. But, I cannot seem to make that happen.

If you delete a message while viewing webmail (thus moving it to the trash in webmail) it does not show up on Mail in the trash, but rather a new folder that apple mail creates called "deleted" messages, which is seperate from the Trash mailbox in Mail (which also has two things in it: On my Mac and myname@mac.com.

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Answer 3

Apr 15, 2007 5:22 PM in response to powerbook1701

> I was just under the impression that, with imap, the trash in apple mail

would reflect the trash on webmail.

And you were right, but IMAP accomplishes that by storing your mail on the server, i.e. you’d observe the behavior you expect if you turn ON the corresponding Store messages on the server setting...

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