Re: deleting messages

James A Baker writes:

> Personally, I'm not aware of ever hearing Sam explicitly state why. But 
> my assumption has always been that it's essentially "because that's how 
> IMAP and POP work with the folders." Neither IMAP nor POP will actually 
> delete messages from an active folder without some other "confirmation" 
> action. In the case of IMAP, an explicit "EXPUNGE" command must be 
> issued after the deletion to really delete the messages, IIRC. And in 
> the case of POP, I don't believe the messages are actually removed 
> after being marked as deleted, unless a successful "QUIT" command is 
> issued to end the session.

There's another reason, and a more important one.

You are reading the first message in the folder.  You see at the top of the 
screen: "Message 1 of 6".

Suppose you've decided to delete it.  After pressing the delete button, 
sqwebmail deletes the message and goes to the next one.  Question: what do 
you expect to see at the top of the screen now:

"Message 2 of 6"

or

"Message 1 of 5"?

Which one of the above actually makes sense, and which one is going to 
confuse the hell out of everyone.

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