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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail development
From:       Thorsten Zachmann <T.Zachmann () zagge ! de>
Date:       2001-10-13 5:11:20
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Hello all

> > 2. Select mails which sould be deleted, by looking at the list of
> > headers.
> > This can be done in 2 ways and will be done by configurable filters.
> > a) exclude: remove mails from the list you want to keep and delete
> > all left over.
> > b) include: select mails from the list that should be deleted, get
> > all others.
> 
> Sound good. But you should use the already implemented filters for this
> (maybe they have to be extended). Adding another set of filters will
> only confuse the users.

This is a good possibility we will check.

> > 3. Show the list in a confirmation dialog where you can
> > for a) keep mails that were selected for deletion and refine filters
> > for b) select additional mails for deletion and refine filters
> > This dialog will be optional. So if you have a bulletproof ruleset
> > (if there is such a thing) KMail will not bug you and delete the
> > unwanted mail
> > silently.
> 
> I don't think that using a dialog is a good idea because:
> 1.) It won't work with interval checking.
> 2.) People with dialup connections usually don't want to stay connected
> until they decided which messages should be deleted and which not.
> Because of these two points IMHO using a dialog is not an option.

1.) It will be configurable if you want to get the confirmation
dialogue.
2.) At the moment there is no possibility to delete very big mails.

> > 4. Delete unwanted mails from server
> > 5. Start of normal download
> >
> > The rules can be defined in a seperate dialog (similar the
> > mailfilters) and can be activated for each POP account seperately.


Regards 
Thorsten
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