From kde-bugs-dist Fri May 31 19:46:04 2002 From: JW (by way of JW ) Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:46:04 +0000 To: kde-bugs-dist Subject: Bug#43217: No automatic way to delete downloaded mails from pop3 server X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=102287466425188 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 thi= s, IK >> but setting never IK >> actually deletes any messages from the server. IK >Did you enable "Filter mail on server" in the configuration of your P= OP IK >server=20 Yes, In Configure KMail > Network > Recving > {Add|Modify} Account > Gene= ral 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 li= mit -- what did I want to do with it? I checked the radio button under the green check mark.=20 There is no text saying what those different options mean, and no tool ti= ps - I have no idea what the different options mena, and I doubt many oth= er 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 d= elete matching messages without downloading them.=20 I wonder if that will properly apply to messages that were previously don= wloading 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 arriv= ed 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 sma= ll 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 go= al. What do other people do -- just let their spool file grow forever? IK >Regards, IK >Ingo Thanks Igo... --=20 (Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/43/43217.html)