Maybe this qualifies as just the way it is, and not an ‘issue’ per se. But it surprised me (and Postbox did not behave this way).
Suppose I send an email to someone. They respond. And then we go back and forth a time or two, creating a thread.
Then, I save the entire thread in one of my IMAP folders (as I am wont to do).
A day or so later, the person involved in the thread sends me a quick followup. I read it, and then delete it. And that deletes the whole thread that was saved in the IMAP folder.
It feels to me as though deleting a message from my Inbox should not delete messages saved in an IMAP folder, even if the deleted message is part of the same thread. I lost quite a few saved e-mails before I realized this was happening, as it was unexpected.
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A day or so later, the person involved in the thread sends me a quick followup. I read it, and then delete it. And that deletes the whole thread that was saved in the IMAP folder.
To delete a message in a conversation without deleting the entire conversation, you first “expand the conversation” and then “delete the specific message” at the far right of the message. See @Gary post extract below from the following thread.
https://forum.emclient.com/t/how-not-to-delete-sent-mail/95824/2
“To delete only some messages in a conversation, expand the conversation thread, then select the message and delete it by clicking on the delete icon, toolbar button or keyboard Del key”
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I did think of that. Nice to know there’s a way around it.
I agree with Gary from the other thread: I wouldn’t choose this as the default behavior, if it were up to me, as I don’t think it’s intuitive. I don’t expect messages to be deleted from other folders when I delete from the Inbox, threaded or not. None of the other email client apps I have used in the past worked that way, that I can recall.
It would be nice if eMClient could be configured otherwise. But now that I know, at least I can avoid the problem.
Thanks!
/John
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