I have been using eM Client for a while and for the most part am quite pleased. However, I do have a question on “Confirmations” setting regarding deleting messages.
I would like a confirmation prompt only when deleting anything from Trash but not when deleting any other message (i.e., Inbox, Sent, Drafts, etc.). I see where there is a settings option for “Ask before deleting mail” and “Ask before deleting mail permanently”. I would have thought the “permanently” option would only be triggered when deleting mail from Trash (i.e., permanently); other deletions would not be affected (i.e., no prompts) as they are being moved to the Trash folder. I have the “permanently” Settings/Confirmation option checked but not the other generic non-permanent option; yet, I am not prompted when deleting messages from Trash. Is there some other setting I am missing?
This applies to emptying the trash as a whole but not on single messages inside the trash (which are deleted permanentely).
Behaviour in Outlook (what I’m used to and would like to see):
I delete a message from the inbox: no confirmation prompt
I delete a single message from trash (aka permanentely): I get a confirmation prompt
Behaviour in eM Client:
I delete a message from the inbox: no confirmation prompt (that’s what I want and selected in the settings)
I delete a single message from trash (aka permanentely): no confirmation prompt
I also don’t see any way to delete a message from the inbox permanentely, so the question is, what does the setting “Ask before deleting mail permanently” even apply to and when?
To answer my own question:
Permanent deletion is possible by hitting shift+delete.
So the “Ask before deleting mail permanently” checkbox is tied to that way of deleting that I even didn’t knew about.
Currently there are only two ways when deleting single mail: always a prompt or never a prompt.
You don’t have a separation between normal folders, where deleted files will be send to trash and trash (or junk) folder, where mails will get deleted permanently.
I like the way this is handled in Outlook as it is kind of a safety mechanism when reviewing the trash.