IMAP & Deleted e-Mails

[Ofer B. Ho]

I am currently using Thunderbird to pull in my IMAP e-Mail. I want to
give Outlook 2003 a trial run. In Thunderbird, when I delete an e-Mail
from the server, it moves the e-Mail into my Trash folder and I don't
see it anymore in my Inbox.

When I delete e-Mail in Outlook 2003, it marks it for deletion and
leaves it where it is. I don't want the message deleted, I want it
moved to my Trash folder (yes, I archive my Trash folder by month and
year to keep records of all the e-Mails I have received). I tried
different views that hid the deleted items from my folders so that I
could actually go through my mail (I get hundreds of e-Mails daily and I
do not want e-Mails marked for deletion to clutter my view). However,
it did not move the deleted items to my Trash bin and it looks like it
deleted it.

I thought I saw a setting somewhere where deleted items can be moved
into another folder. Can someone help me find that setting?

Thanks.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

imap items as not 'deleted' by moving to the trash bin, they are purged.

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[Brian Tillman]

I am currently using Thunderbird to pull in my IMAP e-Mail. I want to
give Outlook 2003 a trial run. In Thunderbird, when I delete an
e-Mail from the server, it moves the e-Mail into my Trash folder and
I don't see it anymore in my Inbox.

When I delete e-Mail in Outlook 2003, it marks it for deletion and
leaves it where it is. I don't want the message deleted, I want it
moved to my Trash folder (yes, I archive my Trash folder by month and
year to keep records of all the e-Mails I have received).

Thundrebird may show the messages as moved to a Trash folder, but it's not
doing anything different that Outlook because the IMAP protocol doesn't
delete items. Thunderbird appears to move things to a folder and Outlook
puts a line through them. Just two different ways of representing the same
thing. IMAP items get deleted finally when they are purged.