Says it cannotmove to trash the selectedEmail
Opened a bug report as suggested for my last post for some issue
It was closed saying Beam is a third party application. Raise a ticket on their forum.
link given directed me to github
I do nothave a github account, since I am not a developer
what shpuld we do in such cases?
The URL is GitHub - HaikuArchives/Beam: BEware, Another Mailer - an e-mail client for BeOS/Haiku and it certainly is on GitHub. You may need to sign up regardless of whether you develop code or not because HaikuPorts and HaikuArchives are hosted there. Submitting a bug on their issue tracker may be painless once you sign up but the mandatory 2-factor authentication is a pain.
You can ask someone to open a ticket for you, complain to haikuarchives about the use of github.
Or make a github account and open the ticket.
One year later, this issue still remains un-resolved
Is Beam being actively developed?
A simple matter of deleting emails…function impossible
On the Haiku depot, it mentions Adrien Destuges as maintainer…that is pulkomandy…hope he does something so that unwanted emails can be deleted
Beam development stopped about twenty years ago.
He’s listed as maintainer for the period from 2016 to 2020.
(By the way …
pkgman info doesn’t include that info.)Anyway, if the documentation that appears in HaikuDepot is up to date, it’s working as advertised. That’s what “Preliminary IMAP-support (fetches mails just as POP3 does)” means.
Maybe it actually does more than that. FYI, what it means to delete an email from IMAP is really a sequence of events.
\Deleted flag on the messageEXPUNGE command that rewrites the folder without the delete-flagged messages. That’s a separate step because unlike other normal IMAP actions, it requires exclusive access to the folder, because if other clients had the folder open concurrently, they’d lose track of the indexing.In your case, evidently, it also involves an intermediate step -
Trash.Since that operation is mentioned in the error message, it’s probably the first place to look. What if Beam is looking for a Trash folder and doesn’t see one? Does it have a list of folders somewhere? (if it does, then that documentation was definitely out of date.)
If you put your mouse over, the full copyright list appears as a tooltip.
Thanks for the info. I will abandon Beam and use some other client
Un-installing Beam is also a headache now…pl. see attached screenshot
Could you try to uninstall Beam with pkgman in Terminal? Maybe additional information is mentioned in there.
Probably it’s already been uninstalled, I see that message relatively often when I click too many times on “uninstall”.
If all else fails, you could check if the package is still in “/boot/system/packages” and delete it from there if it isn’t.
I wouldn’t just delete packages in /system/packages, there is a package manager for that, my 2 cents. 
It is not permitting me to edit the subject line.
Pl. mark this as “Closed”
Maybe because it is a year old thread and hence not allowing me to edit?
Other posts show the edit pen, not this one
Added “Fixed” to it.
the issue of not able to delete emails still remains.
I have moved away from beam
Hence I marked it closed
OK, then this can stay open untill someone can fix it, or becomes obsolete. Thanks for reporting.
The main problem we have these software in HaikuArchives is that bugs reported are about native apps. Therefore there’s no reason to believe the port is responsible and filled them at Haikuports. But in HaikuArchives they have far less visibility.
On the forum it was mentioned that in the haikuarchives overview you can see all tickets for all repos.