On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 07:38:45AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:24 -0400, Default User wrote: > > It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather > > than the mbox format [...] > I thought we were talking about IMAP protocol access to Google? In > which case Evolution isn't storing email in any format [1], it's > accessing it on a remote server [...] Oh, goody. I only brought mbox up as an attempt to explain how such a kind of unser interface (mark for deletion, then bulk expunge/ compact/whatyoucallit) might have developed. After that, users might expect that kind of interface regardless of the actual storage backend, so many mailers offer it. Cheers -- t
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