Re: [gotmail] SOLVED?? - Emails aren't fetch'd anymore ...

[paul cannon]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:03:26AM +0000, John Fruetel wrote:
> When deleting mail, gotmail moves them to the trash can.  For a long time, 
> the internal id of the trash can has been F0000004.  Recently, though, the 
> trash can on at least some accounts is now more like 
> ""00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002".  I changed gotmail to use use this 
> id.

Hi John-

> The problem is, I'm not sure that ALL the new "Trash Can" folders are this 
> same id.  I can pretty easily scan through the mail and figure out whatever 
> the correct ID for the deleted folder is by looking for a folder named 
> "Trash Can".  But doing that will mean that gotmail would pretty much be an 
> 'English' only thing.

I suggest scanning the page looking for the /string/ "F0000004"; if it's
there, the trash can is probably named that; if it's not there, the
trash can probably has the other name. Until you start seeing trash cans
with more widely varying names, that will solve your problems.

-- 
paul