Re: Fw: Re: "all delete_on_server" not working for Trash folder?

Hi, Thorsten,

Thanks *very* much for all your help on this.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:15:06 +0200
Thorsten Maerz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:18:52 -0500 Peter Davis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:23:26 +0200
> > Thorsten Maerz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > Delete on server has to be invoked via Selective DL. The messages
> > > will be marked for deletion by your rules, but there is no
> > > deletion without using Selective DL.
> > 
> > Ok, thank you.  I'll have to figure out how this works.  By the way,
> > it would be *really* convenient if I could switch accounts within
> > the Selective DL dialog, instead of having to close it, switch, etc.
> >  I
> > think it would also be nice to display the current account in there.
> 
> The account name in the last line of the Selective DL window can
> be clicked to select a different one. But it is not possible to
> display several accounts at once.

Oh!  I completely missed that somehow.  My apologies.  Thanks.

> But remember, we are talking about a feature that is currently
> removed/exchanged, so you might better ask the author at the
> *nix claws mailing list.

Well, it sounds like the best solution would be to figure out how to
integrate my own fetch and nuke scripts.  That way I can simply delete
the messages while reading them, and have them cleaned off the server
next time I fetch mail.

The current method in Sylpheed and Claws doesn't seem to offer much, if
I have to use Selective Download in order to delete from the server. 
Selective Download requires me to look at each message header and make
some decision about the message before I download it.  If a message is
questionable, I still have to download it and decide whether I should
keep it or delete it.


> > I'm uneasy about using my fetching script in place of
> > Claws's native mail fetching.  
> > For one thing, how would the various
> > .sylpheed files (cache, etc.) get updated?
> 
> Incorporating files from a local spool will update the folders
> IIRC. On the same page from "common preferences" is an option to
> check all folders after incorporation.

Right now, my fetching script doesn't write messages to a local spool. 
It uses the MH rcvstore command to write them directly to MH folders. 
That would require using Claws's 'rebuild folder tree' option to update
each time, unless there's a way to automate that.

It might be better for me to modify my script to simply write to the
local spool, but then I'd have two steps:

1) Run script to fetch mail from POP server and write to local spool,
and

2) Get Claws to incorporate messages from spool.

> > For another, my script
> > doesn't do SSL, so I'd have to have a tunneler running for that. 
> > (No
> 
> google stunnel

I already have stunnel working.  I've used that with gnus, mutt, etc.  I
liked *not* having to use it with Claws.

Thanks very much!

-pd



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