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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#43217: No automatic way to delete downloaded mails from pop3 server
From:       JW <wilson () claborn ! net>(by way of JW <wilson () claborn ! net>)
Date:       2002-05-31 19:46:04
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IK >On Wednesday 29 May 2002 17:22, wilson@claborn.net wrote:
IK >> It was once suggested to me that I could use a pop filter to do this,
IK >> but setting <age in days > <is greater than or equal to> <x> never
IK >> actually deletes any messages from the server.

IK >Did you enable "Filter mail on server" in the configuration of your POP
IK >server 

Yes, In Configure KMail > Network > Recving > {Add|Modify} Account > General tab

and did you set "Size of messages to filter" to a low value,
IK >e.g. 1, so that every message is filtered?

Size of messages to Filter: 1.

On 1 message I got something about a message exceding the maximum size limit -- what did I want to do \
with it? I checked the radio button under the green check mark. 
There is no text saying what those different options mean, and no tool tips - I have no idea what the \
different options mena, and I doubt many other people do either. Very un-intuitive. You can see a picture \
of that here:

http://ccs008.claborn.net/~jw/img/kmail_popfilter_warning_snapshot1.png

I am completely unable to understand what that's all about, especially as it only seems to be a few \
message that "excede the maximum size limit".

Also the KDE KMail manual indicates that "Delete mail from server" will delete matching messages without \
downloading them.  I wonder if that will properly apply to messages that were previously donwloading them \
-- if KMail is skipping them by message ID entireyly, it's probably not filtering them in order to know \
that they are "now" old.

IK >Unfortunately I don't know if the POP filters only filter newly arrived
IK >messages or if they always filter all messages. My guess is that they
IK >only filter newly arrived messages (which means it wouldn't work for
IK >you).

I belive you are correct. This is such a maddening issue, it seems so small yet it is preventing me from \
really using Kmail. In the process, it is also preventing me from finally doing away with my last Win2k \
install :-/ unless I want to comit myself to constantly rming mesage from the pop3 spool up on the server \
by hand - which is not the goal.

What do other people do -- just let their spool file grow forever?

IK >Regards,
IK >Ingo

Thanks Igo...

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(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/43/43217.html)


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