Summary: | No automatic way to delete downloaded mails from pop3 server | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kmail | Reporter: | Jw <wilson> |
Component: | pop3 | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | wishlist | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 1.4 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | openSUSE | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jw
2002-05-29 15:22:16 UTC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 May 2002 17:22 wilson@claborn.net wrote: > 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 >=3D 3 I expect it to > rm messages that are 3 or more days old. Did you enable "Filter mail on server" in the configuration of your POP=20 server and did you set "Size of messages to filter" to a low value=20 e.g. 1 so that every message is filtered? Unfortunately I don't know if the POP filters only filter newly arrived=20 messages or if they always filter all messages. My guess is that they=20 only filter newly arrived messages (which means it wouldn't work for=20 you). Regards Ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE89Vi4GnR+RTDgudgRAmgDAJ90j2aj88aO2bITnyzKs4NALgxNxACgsrT+ Bf8+q22lP8WAKsn4eVs1bDw=3D =3DiRvt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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=20 Yes In Configure KMail > Network > Recving > {Add|Modify} Account > Genera= l 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 limi= t -- 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 tips= - I have no idea what the different options mena and I doubt many other p= eople 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 i= t 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 del= ete matching messages without downloading them.=20 I wonder if that will properly apply to messages that were previously donwl= oading them -- if KMail is skipping them by message ID entireyly it's prob= ably 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 la= st Win2k install :-/ unless I want to comit myself to constantly rming mesa= ge 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... --=20 There is a patch available with bug #49989 to give options for delete after x days, keep only y messages & keep only z MBs of messages. |