I am pulling my hair out these days trying to understand DELETE and all it’s options. Cut to the chase:
I just want e-mail I delete on K-9 to end up in some folder back at the server that is not INBOX
so that I can decide how to deal with it further and not lose it until I decide to do that.
there’s one fly in the ointment the server I use with SQUIRREL mail has a “DELETE BYPASS TRASH”
option and I’m wondering if that’s interfering or is that a red herring of mine?
For me it sounds more like MOVE than delete.
Deleting a message in K-9 Mail will move the message to the configured trash folder. Only if no trash folder is configured, the message is deleted immediately.
You can configure the trash folder under Settings → [Account] → Folders → Trash folder.
I’m still seeing deleted emails on K9 disappearing
If I delete it on my squirrel mail server, it goes into the trash folder but not with k9
This is a problem. Anytime I decide I want to retrieve a deleted mail that I’ve mistakenly deleted it’s lost and unretrievable
I do have the trash folder named. I’ve tried trash. I’ve tried soon to be trashed and it still disappears out of canine and is not found on squirrel mail server
This has become such a annoyance that
If I could find an Android Mail app as good as k9 without this problem, I’d move to it immediately
Ps could it be that k9 is signaling the server to do a delete bypass trash?
Does anybody else have a server that has this funny option of delete bypass trash and not have this problem
If you enable debug logging in K-9 Mail, the communication between the app and the mail server is recorded. Recording a log while deleting a message using K-9 Mail would be a huge help in trying to figure out what is going on. See LoggingErrors · thunderbird/thunderbird-android Wiki · GitHub
Are you synching your Trash folder on K9 with the server’s Trash folder? I believe, or maybe I set it, such that Trash is not a sync’d folder. Check it’s poll/push settings.