Re: Leaving on POP server & selectively deleting

Thorsten Maerz wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>On Wed, 21 May 2003 11:55:16 -0400 Peter Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'd like to be able to do something like this with Sylpheed-Claws.  Is
>>there any way to access the server and UIDL info when messages are
>>downloaded, so I can store that somewhere?  
>>    
>>
>
>No.
>  
>

Thanks, Thorsten.  I've thought of writing a Perl script to purge 
messages from the server based on Message-ID, rather than UIDL.  I would 
run the script on all the messages in the trash folder prior to emptying 
the trash.  However, getting the Message-ID from a POP3 server is more 
work than getting the UIDL, and not all messages have Message-IDs.

This, to me, is the biggest shortcoming of Sylpheed-Claws.  I can leave 
messages on the POP server or not, but there's no way to automatically 
purge them from the server when I delete them locally (except by using 
Selective Download, which seems like a cumbersome way to read mail.)

Thanks!

-pd


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