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Mac 911 Weblog: Where's the Trash?
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 02:50 PM
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 06:01 PM
Chris,
i believe you left out a step. the trash won't show up in mail until you actually delete something. once you hit delete on your first mail then the trash can will appear. until you do, the trash can won't show up in the left hand column.
i believe you left out a step. the trash won't show up in mail until you actually delete something. once you hit delete on your first mail then the trash can will appear. until you do, the trash can won't show up in the left hand column.
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 07:10 PM
Chris, in addition to fribhey's comment, you're also implicitly assuming a POP account (.Mac might be similar at least if told to keep the trash on the Mac; it's been years since I set one of those up in Mail).
And I think assuming POP is fine in the context of the article.
IMAP, while more useful, is more difficult to set up, and presents the additional choice of whether the Trash lives on the server or on the local Mac.
--John
And I think assuming POP is fine in the context of the article.
IMAP, while more useful, is more difficult to set up, and presents the additional choice of whether the Trash lives on the server or on the local Mac.
--John
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 10:38 PM
John, you're correct, I did assume POP and should have mentioned IMAP. I specifically went after POP without talking about IMAP because Alexis used to have Trash yet now doesn't due to the reinstall of OS X. Had it been an IMAP account I would have thought the Trash would come back automatically whereas this wouldn't be the case with POP.
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Posted 04 October 2007 - 11:32 AM
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John, you're correct, I did assume POP and should have mentioned IMAP. I specifically went after POP without talking about IMAP because Alexis used to have Trash yet now doesn't due to the reinstall of OS X. Had it been an IMAP account I would have thought the Trash would come back automatically whereas this wouldn't be the case with POP.
John, you're correct, I did assume POP and should have mentioned IMAP. I specifically went after POP without talking about IMAP because Alexis used to have Trash yet now doesn't due to the reinstall of OS X. Had it been an IMAP account I would have thought the Trash would come back automatically whereas this wouldn't be the case with POP.
I think with IMAP you're guaranteed to have a Trash folder. If it has to, Mail will create it. The catch is that you may have multiple "deleted" or "deleted mail" folders, with only one being "the Trash." Mail is not very good at interrogating the server and using existing folders for things. (I'm hoping they fix that in Leopard.) So a good IMAP tip would probably be more useful to tell people about the Use This Mailbox For menu. And even more useful would be telling people about IMAP Path Prefix, and how to get your entire folder structure out of the Inbox folder.
(I'm not saying this tip should be updated. The tip is fine. But since the comments are discussing IMAP...)
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