[Evolution] Character encoding and expunge?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 15:17, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
>>Hi..
>>
>>                           Subject: 
>>Hva som skal st=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=
>>I mail som sendes u
>>
>>Why isn't this shown like this ??:
>>
>>Subject: Hva som skal stå I mail som sendes u
> 
> 
> because the subject encoding is broken and does not conform to the spec
> (which means this is probably spam anyway, so who cares???)
> 
> for more information, read rfc2047 and rfc0822
> 

Well, it's not spam, it's actually mail from a customer... And I am 
guessing that it does not conform to the spec... But I was just curious 
why Evolution doesn't handle this since most of the other MUA does?
> 
>>
>>Second, why isn't there an option that make it possible to enable "hard"
>>delete of mail instead of delete and then have to press Ctrl-E to
>>expunge the mail. This should be a small task to implement, the code is
>>already there, just combine it... :)
> 
> 
> because it's a lot slower??? besides, EXPUNGE expunges the mailbox, not
> just a singleton message. why is it really that bad that it waits to
> expunge them all at once? makes more sense to me...
> 

Well, it's not bad but it forces me to delete messages twice. I just 
mean that when I delete a message I really mean to delete it, I don't 
want to delete it twice (all though expunge deletes all marked messages 
in a mailbox..)


> 
>>
>>And also, when using IMAP, why isn't the seen flag marked when I have
>>read the email? I have to eg. go to another folder en back again to make
>>sure the mail is marked as read..
> 
> 
> because it's a lot slower??? :-)
> 
> flag syncing is delayed until either:
> 
> 1. a timeout expires
> 2. folder change
> 

It can't be that much slower but then I am running my own mailserver on 
my LAN and I don't have any trouble with bandwidth... :)

BTJ