After a long night of reading old TBUDL archived messages, I now realize The
Bat! IMAP4 support is broken, or at least, not philosophically in keeping with
the spirit of IMAP. At any rate, I found the solution to my problem of wanting
to leave messages on the server, but also wanting to delete junk and so forth
and messages with large attachments FROM the server.
That was simply to mark "leave messages on server" but also "delete messages
from server when they are deleted from the trash." That solution seems to work
OK, but there are no log entries reflecting this deletion at the next sync, as
my previous message to the list states.
At any rate I now got into a related problem: how does one keep messages locally
in TB folders but get rid of them on the server? It would be simple if I never
checked "leave messages on server" but that way TB would have to be my exclusive
client, and it isn't... I often read mail through outlook express and sometimes
I even telnet into my server where I have shell access and read my mail using
mutt.
I found that there were lots of messages I wanted to archive, but didn't want
them chewing up space on my IMAP box. I was not able to find a simple option
(such as is available in Calypso, called "delete from server" as opposed to
"delete" or "delete locally" or "delete from mailbox AND from server").
The kludge I came up with is this:
1) All the mail I want to keep, but delete from the server, is already sorted
into local folders. Usually, it's list mail, or messages with multiple
recipients (the poor-man's mailing list).
2) For each folder, I go into the folder, and start up the sorting office.
3) I set up a filter rule under Read messages. I call this rule whatever
(e.g. DELLISTMSGS). I have it search for String ".*" under Sender, but it could
be under any other field too. Note: regexp should be on.
4) I set the Source folder to be the folder containing the messages I want
deleted from the server, and the Destination folder to be THE SAME FOLDER. That
way the messages don't get moved, but under Actions I check "delete the message
from the server." I have it set as active, and manual (but perhaps if it wasn't
manual it would work automatically when a message is filed in that folder,
after/if it was read... can anyone confirm?).
5) I bring down the main Folder menu and select Re-filter and select "Read
messages" as the rulesets to apply, and watch as all the mail gets "filtered."
even though it doesn't actually move, the filtering action takes care of
selecting and deleting the messages from the server
You may all wonder, why don't I just use the dispatcher? Well I can use the
Search function not to mention sorting, in my regular folders. I can do all this
to select messages then drag them all to a certain folder. Then I can have all
the messages in the folder get deleted, this seems more flexible to me than
hunting around in a severely functionality-limited message dispatcher.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Also, can anyone point out my
utter lack of intelligence by telling me there was an easy way to do what I am
doing? :)
Yours in The Bat!ness,
--
Kiyan Azarbar
M.A. Linguistics
University of Ottawa
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