Re: [Evolution] POP, SSH port-forwarding, and deletes

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Ian,

I'm not sure I understand. You have "leave-mail-on-server" checked,
right? That means that you don't want Evolution to delete mail from the
server. That is why it's not performing a DELE for the messages. If you
want it to DELE the messages, you have to turn off keep-mail-on-server.

Jeff

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 00:24, Ian Forde wrote:
> Hi all - I'm new to the list, though I've been using Evolution for well
> over a year now.  I'm having a problem using Evolution with a POP
> account in that it won't delete any messages.  Here's the setup:
>
> My machine: Linux Laptop (RH7.2,
> evolution1.0.3.99-various-snapshots-usually-the-latest-though-this-problem-has-persisted)
>
> I don't control the mailserver, and it's running Qpopper 4.0.3, with no
> APOP support.  Thus, I port-forward over an ssh connection:
>
> ssh -2 -L 4510:mailhost:25 -L 4500:mailhost:110 me mailhost
>
> So I point Evolution at that mailhost:4500 for receiving mail and
> mailhost:4510 for sending mail.  I've turned on the "Leave messages on
> server" option, since unchecking that one sucks the mail off of the
> server and leaves me with no mail the when I'm done.  (Sometimes I
> travel without my laptop and like to use pine.)
>
> So when I "empty trash" and "expunge" the messages leave my "Local
> Folders" but still stay on the server anyway.  I've sniffed the
> connection and watched message downloads, but at no time has Evolution
> performed a "message delete" operation.
>
> Could the fact that evo sees this account as a "local folder" be
> relevant here?  And just to be sure... Mozilla mail works fine in this
> regard, so it's not the server.  (Evo is a better, nicer-looking email
> client, supports gpg/pgp, and doesn't die when my browser crashes, which
> is why I'm using it...)
>
> Any help here would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>       -Ian
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