Re: [Evolution] delete mail after xx days from POP3 server

[Rob Hassing <rob daoretrappers com>]

On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 05:18, Brian wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 21:55, Paul Merlin wrote:
> > Le ven 12/04/2002 à 20:38, Jeffrey Stedfast a écrit :
> > > There's no way to do this.
> >  
> > Is it a planned feature ??
>
> If there's no way to do it, how can it be a planned feature? :)
>
> POP was never really designed for leaving mail on the server at all, let
> alone keeping an index of all messages, and then comparing how long
> they've been in the cache or the timestamp in the header to determine if
> they should be deleted.  Yes other mailers have pulled off this hack,
> but it's really just better to use IMAP if users plan to leave the mail
> on the server at all.
>
> -- 
> Brian
>
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I store almost all mail I receive as an extra form of documentation.
This is now growing and growing, so much mail can't I just leave on the
server, it's too much.
I think imap is no option then. I'll have to delete my mailfile by hand
then.

Thank you for the answers ...

--
Rob