Thanks Angel Very informative, thnaks for sharing I have in the meantime managed to find the Clear trash on exit option, with help of the forum here Cheers Alex On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 19:53 +0200, Ángel wrote: On 2020-08-10 at 19:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:Hi,I'm sharing POP accounts with different mailers. One of them isEvolution. In Evolution my POP accounts are set up to delete mailsafter1 day from the server. Other MUAs don't delete the emails from theserver. There's no reason for a mail client to get confused.Some providers don't support IMAP at all, seehttps://riseup.net/en/email. Indeed it's not aimed for long-lastingstorage, but you don't need to delete the mails right after the mailswere retrieved.Sharing emails of a POP account with several MUAs does not cause anyissue.At least Claws, Sylpheed, Evolution and iPad Mail can be used for thisapproach.Regards,RalfThere's no reason for a mail client to be confused... as long as theserver also follows the rules. It's a really simple protocol that shouldnot cause problems. However, some servers (Gmail and Outlook, typically)provide a POP interface where they try to outsmart the protocol, and maycause interesting interactions: when the client asks to DELE a message,they don't really delete it from their storage, the view of messagespresented via POP is a partial set of the available one... (I think theyfollow some internal heuristic on how long you might want to access oldmails).That said, OP provider seem to be an old school POP server that isunlikely to do funky things.Slightly aside, on the topic of email deletion and long-lasting storage,there is a 1986 US Law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act[1],under which "email that is stored on a third party's server for morethan 180 days is considered to be abandoned" and can be accessed by alaw enforcement agency without a warrant. The Email Privacy Actattempted to change this but so far this bill did not manage to passboth chambers. [2]Thus, it would seem that the traditional approach of POP3 download wouldbe preferable from a privacy point of view, particularly for emailproviders located in the US (which are probably defeated by such "smart"POP3 servers). I'm not sure how it's applied by providers with a globalpresence on multiple jurisdictions.Best regards1-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act2-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Privacy_Act_______________________________________________evolution-list mailing listevolution-list gnome orgTo change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ...https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list |