Feature request: Empty trash

[martinoj2009]

I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 with my Outlook.com e-mail account. I'm trying to empty my trash, however I don't see an option to do that. I try to right-click the trash bin (text and icon) but I don't get an option. I also don't see any option to delete single e-mails in the trash.

[herrbischoff]

Incredible. After I have finally taken the time to set up a locally running instance of the sync engine, I find that it is unstable at best (like a sync engine that is not doing any syncback) and now I realize that I cannot delete messages from the trash folder without using a different email client. Despite the privacy disaster that the cloud version constitutes (sorry for not getting back to @grinich on that, I had to deal with some serious health issues that prevented me from doing any kind of challenging work), N1 is missing so called "features" that every MUA had since around the time the internet was still called ARPANET, circa 1977, when RFC 733 was created. I'm sorry to say this but that's quite embarrassing — and will conclude my dealing with N1 for good. It's kind of crazy that it's 2016 and an ancient piece of software like mutt is still beating the most "modern" email client implementations. 21 years after initial release no less.

[bobbiboy]

i too have uninstalled N1 because the idea of a million emails sitting in trash and having to go elsewhere to delete them made me come to one conclusion, delete N1 ---- that makes email management much easier and quicker than living with N1

[ghost]

This is a must feature, for various reasons. If I use a software to access my email accounts, I just don't use the web access and I would certainly love to be able to maintain my email accounts from the client, and I'm certain that many users do the same. This feature has become a standard for any email client, as such any email client that wants to thrive must have it. Currently I have 4 email accounts set on Nylas N1, I constantly receive emails on all accounts, now the amount of emails in the Trash is such that navigation has become an issue, it has become slow, and I'm quite sure that there are users with more than 4 accounts.

+1 for this, hope to see this feature in the coming versions of Nylas N1

[ndastur]

Sorry to say it, but their strategy on privacy is doggy to say the least and no trash is probably part of stockpiling your emails for data mining. Remember, using this client means all your emails are synced to their server

[jackiehluo]

@ndastur We care a lot about privacy and explicitly do not/will not mine your emails, as mentioned here.

It’s not for us. Companies like Google and Yahoo provide free email services by mining your data and serving targeted ads based on the content. (If you’re not paying, you’re the product!) While this is potentially a lucrative option, it goes against our principles and is not the business we aim to build.

Deleting emails from trash is currently blocked on our back-end, but we consider it critical and plan to implement it eventually!

[JeroenBoersma]

I would love this feature, but it is worth to mention that gmail already cleans your trash after 14 days. So it won't be millions staying there forever, of coarse if you really want to drop those mails, you can do this from gmail itself(for now)

[ndastur]

Unfortunately that only works on Gmail server. Nylas downloads ALL your email to their seever and it never gets deleted from there.

[jackiehluo]

@JeroenBoersma is right! @ndastur, the whole purpose of the sync engine is to stay synced with your mail provider (and N1). We have zero interest in keeping email data for our own purposes. Feel free to ask us if you have questions—we're happy to explain further to ensure that false information doesn't spread!

[caleuanhopkins]

@jackiehluo that's fine, but I delete like 30 emails a day, meaning my trash after 14 days is built up to 420 emails sitting on my hard drive that I would like to remove. If you guys aren't interested in building this feature, fair enough, just close the thread. However, it completely confuses me that this is thread is kept open and yet statements are made that a business choice has been made to let gmail's auto delete function on the email servers handle deleting trash emails

[jackiehluo]

@caleuanhopkins As I mentioned in my first comment, we do plan to build it, and @JeroenBoersma said that, for the time being, providers like Gmail auto-delete from trash.

[caleuanhopkins]

@jackiehluo if it's in the plans to be built, can we close this thread then and tag this thread as a feature for a future build? The tread's starting to run wild and I fear we close to getting off topic.

[jackiehluo]

@caleuanhopkins We keep our issues open until they've been released! It helps so that people don't create new duplicate issues. But I get what you're saying—for now, I'll lock the conversation so that it's searchable but stays focused.

[jackiehluo]

Another request: https://nylas.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/6138

[grinich]

Empty Trash