Dean Jones wrote:
Maybe I misread what you said before then.
So, will there be a default behavior for this if the person didn't configure the client with a trash folder?
IMO the default behavior would be whatever the admin configures RoundCube. If a trash-folder is specified in config (which is by default "Trash") that folder will be created when attempting to delete a message (and not before that). If no trash-folder is configured, the message will be deleted immediately from the server.
Is that OK for you guys? This implies that whoever set up a RoundCube installation has thought about it and decided what's best for his users or the local environment.
Regards, Thomas
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:02:28 +0100, Thomas Bruederli roundcube@gmail.com wrote:
Dean Jones wrote:
These are my points exactly.
What is the problem with automatic deletion (delete then expunge) if
they don't have a trash folder? Maybe they don't have a trash folder on purpose? Maybe they want automatic deletion? Who knows... I think it's safer to leave out automatic creation of any folder. Thunderbird does in fact do this but I think it's incorrect. Doesn't anyone read or pay attention to the Unix philosophy anymore?! :)
As I mentioned before, this should be up to the admin who sets up RoundCube. If the server/webmail admin decides to use a folders named "Trash" then the webmail should do exactly what it is told to do. There's a little difference between common mail clients that every user sets up on his home computer and a central webmail service. If you're working in a bug company the mail client is set up and configured by the sysadmin and you usually have to accept the configuration of your environment and most people (users) don't care about it.
Hotmail, GMX and Yahoo mail act the same way. I agree that having 5 different trash folders is not nice and that's the reason why the name of the Trash can be configured and it will appear in the selected localization without creating a folder named "Muelleimer" on the server.
Regards, Thomas
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:55:00 +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter
list+roundcube-dev@b-a-l-u.de wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:46:45AM +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
After following this thread a while, here are my 2 cents about this: I admit that the current behavior is not right because deleting can fail. The patch submitted by Jacob would solve this and that's what
IMO
should happen. Choice is good, I agree, but I'm not sure how many of
the
"dummy" users have ever seen the settings for deleting messages in
their
mail client. The number of configuration parameters an end-user has to deal with should be kept low.
A customer just had a problem last week when he was not able to delete mails too. In his case there was a Trash folder, but he was not subscribed to it.
I am not sure if I like an automatic creation of the "Trash" folder. At least my dad does not know what "Trash" is anyway - he'd want to
have
"Muelleimer" perhaps. And while talking about the languages... I've seen people with 4 or more "Trash" folders, because different clients used different naming themes.
So having another one added automatically because it's not there is not what I'd like. Please allow people to choose one or allow immediate deletion...
Balu