Sean McBride on 3/20/08 said >Barbara Needham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 3/19/08 10:13 PM said: > >>>Perhaps I'm missing something simple, but is it possible to delete >>>select mails from the server? I gets lots of mail, and filter it into >>>about 40 folders. For about 30 of those folders, I'd like to delete the >>>mail from server as soon as I get them. How might I do that? >> >>Setup/Mail Accounts/Receiving you can set to delete at any [almost] >>number of days in addition to deleting when deleting locally [such as >>for spam]. > >Barbara, > >Thanks for your reply, but that doesn't really fit my needs. I use POP >not IMAP (ISP doesn't provide IMAP) and so all my filtering and sorting >is done in PowerMail. Occasionally I use webmail and/or pine to check >my mail remotely. Generally when I do so, it's to find a personal >message, not a list message. So it would be great if there was a way to >delete from the server all messages that go into a folder other than my inbox.
The setting has nothing to do with IMAP it is a pop setting. However for your other requirement that items that go in folders get deleted and items that stay in your inbox don't get deleted, [or items that go in to certain folders get deleted and other don't] I don't see an easy way to do that. Unless someone could figure out an Apple Script where something like the message that went to a folder was duplicated with one being deleted and one going to the folder, and then all deleted messages would be removed from server but the one in the folder would still be there.... I hope. -- Barbara Needham
