On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Craig Graham wrote:

> I'm testing out Cyrus on a Linux box in preparation to shifting mail
> handling across to it, however I'm noticing a problem deleting mail using
> Outlook Express. The mail is marked for deletion, and appears with a red
> line crossing it out in OE, however the mail never actually gets zapped.
> When you quit outlook, closedown and reboot the Linux box and restart
> Outlook, the messages are still there, and are still marked for deletion.

That's the correct behavior. Use Edit|Purge Deleted to physically erase
them.

That's how IMAP works. With netscape, DEL marks the message for deletion
and File|Compact this folder erases the messages permanently.

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