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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#43217: No automatic way to delete downloaded mails from pop3 server
From:       wilson () claborn ! net
Date:       2002-05-29 15:22:16
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Package: kmail
Version: 1.4 (using KDE 3.0.0 )
Severity: normal
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Linux jw 2.4.18-4GB #1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown

I have asked before for have a "Delete mail from server after x number of days" \
widget next to the  "Delete mail from server" option.

People like me who have a very high volume of email traffic, and have more than one \
computer checking thier pop3 email, have problems with a simple 'don't delete mail \
fom server' because the spool file on the server just grows and grows, with no way to \
ever clear it out. Eventually the Postmaster has to rm messages from the spool by \
hand.

I belive the best way is to have a setting that allows messages to be deleted from \
the server after they are <x> number of days old.

Eudora supports this feature, Outlook Express (and I think Outlook) does, and almost \
everyone I know uses it. There is really no good way to check the same pop3 account \
on multiple computers without a function like this.

Manually setting the delete-from-server to "on" every once in a while is not only a \
nuisance, but you're garunteed to rm at least a few emails that have not yet been \
dlownloaded by one of the other MUAs.

It was once suggested to me that I could use a pop filter to do this, but setting \
<age in days > <is greater than or equal to> <x> never actually deletes any messages \
from the server.

I consider this a bug in the Pop Filters. If you tell the filter to rm mail from the \
server that has an age in days >= 3, I expect it to rm messages that are 3 or more \
days old.

I actually consider it a bug in the general pop3 settings, but I realise others don't \
see it that way. Nonetheless, it inhibits me from using Kmail as a fully functional \
mail client, because I must either check my mail with a different MUA that supports \
this feature, or rm mails from the spool by hand.


(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)


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