Using Mozilla to connect to my mail server, it created a 'Trash' folder, instead of spotting the 'Deleted items' folder and using that. (As an aside, I would say that 'Trash' is a bit of an American term anyway) I think the code should look for a 'deleted items' folder and use that. If you can detect if the IMAP server is Exchange, then you might want to do that check only for that type of server. -dave -dave

Reassign to jefft, cc bienvenu. Guys do we have a shot at doing this automatically? Or would we just need user-configurable Trash folders? The latter is covered in bug 24064

I guess we probably can figure it out by parsing the server greeting. Accepting ...

*** Bug 30283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

From bug 30283: Interchange IMAP server <http://www.ihub.com/> uses "Deleted" for the trash folder. mailandnews.com apparently uses interchange as well, which was the reason for bug 24064.

Actually, this problem also occurred on 4.7... (But nobody reported this problem on 4.7 before?!) We really need to think a way to solve this bug's problem on 5.0.... Right now, even delete messages after defined the Trash folder on the MS Exchange server.....the deleted messages not copied to any folder (not Trash folder, nor "Deleted Items" folder.....) I am wondering to know how we can handle this problem on seamonkey for MS Exchange server....should this be beta1 or post beta1?

Hmm....it's weird! If from 4.7, I cannot see deleted msgs from both folders (Trash & Deleted items) But from 5.0, I can see the deleted messages displayed on Trash folder..... But after I go back to 4.7, I still can't see those deleted messages displayed on Trash folder from 4.7....Why they performed different behavior....shouldn't it reflect on MS Exchange IMAP server consistently?

Oh! Sorry. I take my words back! It also displayed on 4.7 Trash folder now..... So does this bug will be an enhancement for the "Deleted Items" folder? Since after users defined Trash folder, they can use Trash folder as well..... This bug for sure will be post beta1 now......

Mass moving to M16 to get these off the M15 radar. Please let me know if this is really an M15 stopper.

Mass moving M16 to M17 - look for nsbeta2 before anything else.

moving to future milestone.

reassigning jefft's bugs to naving

As described my Justin Hahn in bug# 104437: "Unlike the Sent, Drafts, and Templates folder the user has no means to specify a folder name for the Trash when using an IMAP server. This is problematic when, for example, using an MS Exchange mail server which names it's trash folder "Deleted Items". This should be customizable in the same way as Drafts."

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I use an English localized Mozilla but I connect to a Spanish localized MS Exchange Server. In this server the Trash folder is named "Elementos eliminados". So I think the best solution is to let the user select the Trash folder. Like we do with Drafts, Sent and Templates. ( see bug 24604 )

Sorry, I mean bug 24064

*** Bug 145096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 118525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I thing daniel mario is right. The best thing is if its configurable like sent and draft folders. Isn't his a dup of bug 24064? Also, this bug exists on all platforms, not only on NT.

Concur with previous comment that it is indeed all platforms and a dup of bug 24064. The only platform-specific aspect of this is the quirks of individual mail servers and that has nothing to do with the platfom mozilla runs on. Whilst I appreciate the priorities of fixes dont rank enhancements like this as highly as addressing real problems, the code already exists to configure which folders have other roles, sent and drafts. Cant we add this logic to the handling of the trash folder too? Even as a hidden pref so we can start testing it? After all, adding the gui elements to control it is probably going to be at least as much work as the functional bits.

I agree as well. I don't see how it's possible to do this automatically since there's so many possibilities and it could get it wrong (a normal folder can also be called Trash); user intervention of some type is need. I've modified bug 24064 to be easier to find and am dup'ing this one. [I wonder if any mail server has a "dustbin"...] *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24064 ***

How does Outlook Express do this? (Outlook presumably uses the proprietary Exchange format, so is not applicable.) Does it detect the right Trash folder, even if the name is localized?

Guys, let's avoid such an attempts to make Mozilla pretend it's smarter than its user, like many other programs do. That is annoying. If you want a different name for your Trash Bin, just check a certain checkox on it saying "I want THIS to be the Trash Bin", rather than let the program guess how Trash Bin is called in Swahili, ok? ==> vrfy dupe.