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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 31114] When deleting mail locally, delete on POP3 server, too.
From:       Alexis Papadopoulos <iacp () free ! fr>
Date:       2007-08-24 15:34:40
Message-ID: 20070824153440.31574.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From iacp free fr  2007-08-24 17:34 -------
Hello,

I've just stumbled upon this report and decided to take a look, although I don't (yet) use \
KMail with one POP account I have.

In my opinion, this can be solved probably this way:
_ each time we download a message through POP, we add two headers, the UID (easy to do, I've \
already made the modification) and the receiving account that was used (haven't really looked \
into that yet) _ when a message is deleted, we just look at the headers. If the account is a \
POP one and the UID is available, we can safely delete the message from the server (if \
requested by the user of course)

I have only taken a quick look and I'm sure that things are not that easy, but this should be \
possible. Now the question is, is it too unorthodox to add such headers in the messages ? The \
UID, I think not, but the account information maybe. A dev's opinion would be great...

The next thing I need to solve is how to delete the messages from the server. I cannot do this \
in a per message basis because if the user deletes too many mails at once, he'll just send \
massive DELE requests to his pop server. That might take me some time since I'm a noob in KMail \
development.

Last, but not least, the disadvantage here is that all previously download mails don't have \
these extra headers, so there isn't much we can do about them. Then again, I don't think there \
is a possibility to implement this feature without facing this last issue...

Alexis
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