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    <desc>Moving emails from one folder to another.</desc>
    
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
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<title>Moved emails are still shown in the original folder</title>

<p>If your IMAP mail server does not yet support <link href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6851">IMAP's "move" feature</link> which was introduced in January 2013, <app>Evolution</app> "moves" messages by copying and deleting emails. Deleting means "marking messages for deletion" so all the original messages are retained until you expunge the emails marked for deletion.</p>

<p>See the topic on <link xref="mail-delete-and-undelete">deleting emails</link> for instructions on how to expunge email messages. Note that this applies to other types of accounts as well.</p>

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