diff --git a/src/domain/jmap.rs b/src/domain/jmap.rs
index 1c16e26..a359002 100644
--- a/src/domain/jmap.rs
+++ b/src/domain/jmap.rs
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ pub struct EmailContent {
     pub is_long: bool,
 }
 
-/// A channel-neutral page of JMAP Email/changes. Deleted IDs are retained for
-/// cursor accounting but are not notified because they have no metadata.
+/// A channel-neutral page of JMAP Email/changes. Only `created` and `updated`
+/// drive notification: deletions have no metadata to notify about and are
+/// therefore dropped at the boundary rather than plumbed through.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct EmailChanges {
     pub new_state: String,
     pub created: Vec<String>,
     pub updated: Vec<String>,
-    pub destroyed: Vec<String>,
     pub has_more: bool,
 }
 
@@ -320,7 +320,6 @@ mod tests {
                 new_state: "new".into(),
                 created: vec!["email-1".into()],
                 updated: vec![],
-                destroyed: vec![],
                 has_more: false,
             })
         }
diff --git a/src/domain/jmap/client.rs b/src/domain/jmap/client.rs
index 7961210..f92f8e5 100644
--- a/src/domain/jmap/client.rs
+++ b/src/domain/jmap/client.rs
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ impl JmapBackend for JmapClientBackend {
             new_state: response.new_state().to_owned(),
             created: response.created().to_owned(),
             updated: response.updated().to_owned(),
-            destroyed: response.destroyed().to_owned(),
             has_more: response.has_more_changes(),
         })
     }
diff --git a/src/worker.rs b/src/worker.rs
index 88dbf9f..3feabfa 100644
--- a/src/worker.rs
+++ b/src/worker.rs
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ impl<B: JmapBackend> WorkerHandler for MetadataWorker<B> {
                     // Re-baseline instead of failing the invocation. jmap-client
                     // 0.4.2 exposes no reset signal: `ChangesResponse` only
                     // carries `oldState`/`newState`/`hasMoreChanges`/`created`/
-                    // `updated`/`destroyed`, so a `/changes` failure is
+                    // `updated`, so a `/changes` failure is
                     // indistinguishable from "the server no longer replays from
                     // this `sinceState`". Returning `Err(())` leaves the cursor
                     // untouched, so every later invocation retries the same dead