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  <info>
    <desc>An explanation for the problem that two trash folders are present in Evolution.</desc>
    
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">April Gonzales</name>
      <email its:translate="no">loonycookie@gmail.com</email>
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      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<title>Two Trash folders shown for the same account</title>

<p>You may have created another Trash folder to hold all your deleted email messages. This can happen when you use another email client together with Evolution.</p>

<p>Evolution's <gui>Trash</gui> folder is a <link xref="mail-search-folders">Search folder</link>. It does not really exist but simply displays all the messages that are marked for deletion in any folders of that account.</p>

<p>You can easily tell the two Trash folders apart by looking at their icons. The Evolution <gui>Trash</gui> folder has a special icon whereas the other physical Trash folder looks like any other folder.</p>

<note style="tip"><p>Note that the <gui>Junk</gui> folder is also a search folder and may also appear twice.</p></note>

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