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Permanent deletion means that messages will *irreversibly* be lost, and to prevent this from happening accidentally, this always needs to be confirmed.
Permanent deletion means that messages will *irreversibly* be lost, and to prevent this from happening accidentally, this always needs to be confirmed.
Even with a confirmation, some very angry people who lost some of their messages through their own fault contacted me, which was a rather unpleasant experience :-(
Even with a confirmation, some very angry people who lost some of their messages through their own fault contacted me, which was a rather unpleasant experience :-(
Note that the POP3 protocol can download messages from the inbox only.
So, deleted messages cannot be uploaded to the inbox again.
This means that messages can only be permanently deleted when using a POP3 account.
Advanced: the IMAP delete flag in combination with the EXPUNGE command is not supportable
Advanced: the IMAP delete flag in combination with the EXPUNGE command is not supportable
because both email servers and not all people can handle this, risking unexpected loss of messages.
because both email servers and not all people can handle this, risking unexpected loss of messages.
A complicating factor is that not all email servers support [UID EXPUNGE](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4315).
A complicating factor is that not all email servers support [UID EXPUNGE](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4315).