Synchronising folder deletions

[Thomas Kahle]

Hi,

On 23:25 Sun 15 Jan 2012, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello Offlineimap people
> 
> All the recent work on syncing the creation of new folders has been 
> excellent.
> 
> But the equivalent thing doesn't happen (I'm using 6.5.2-rc1) when 
> deleting folders.  If I delete a folder on the remote repository, for 
> example, the next sync recreates it:
> 
>    INFO: Creating new IMAP folder 'Trash.NewFolder' on server LocalIMAP
>    INFO: Creating new IMAP folder 'NewFolder' on server RemoteIMAP
> 
> I know the philosophy is to avoid data loss, but for the average user 
> who is just trying to manage their emails by filing them and moving them 
> around and deleting them when no longer needed, this can only cause 
> confusion.
> 
> I'd like to raise this as a feature request.
> 
> Is it an issue for anyone else?

It has been discussed before, see here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/5122

I think the conclusion was that it will possibly be implemented after
the current round of new features has been stabilzed.

Cheers,
Thomas



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Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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