[plug] Thunderbird Delete Mail off POP3 server via filter

[Shayne O'Neill]

Do you have imap access? Leaving mail on server with a pop acct just
sounds confusing.

Try imap if you have it. The filters will probably be more sane also.

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Tim White wrote:

> I am using Thunderbird 0.5 under Linux. (Deb package, side note, what
> apt source can I had so that I can get the latest firefox and
> thunderbird in deb package?)
> I have the account settings for my Optus POP3 account to leave the mail
> on the server. I have a few filters that are supposed to delete the mail
> of the server if they match the filter and move them to a different
> folder. It moves the mail to a different folder but doesn't delete them
> off the server.
> I set up a test filter and set some mail to myself that should have been
> deleted off the server and it doesn't work.
> Has anyone experianced this and know a fix?
> Tim
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