217880 - Provide option to delete selected mail from POP server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47297

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Coppins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

Due to the latest virus doing the rounds, I'm receiving 5 virus-infected email
attachments every hour.  I have Mozilla configured not to auto download mails
bigger than 25KB.  I then have to manually flush out my mailbox using telnet:110
or webmail.

IMO, there should be an option to delete a specific mail from the server.  This
option probably shouldn't also delete the mail locally.

This feature would save me a great deal of time :-)  (I'm a modem user)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

I like that idea. Confirming.

Comment 2

[Michael]

Would be a great enhancement of Mozilla Mail.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

'Delete messages from server when they are deleted or moved from Inbox' doesn't
work for you?

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

> 'Delete messages from server when they are deleted or moved from Inbox' doesn't
> work for you?

the RFE seems to be the opposite -- delete remotely without deleting locally

And if I understand it correctly, delete mail without having first downloaded it
at all.

Comment 5

[Mike Coppins]

Comment 4 has what I'm saying correctly.

To explain it a bit more -

I'm on a modem connection, I don't like waiting for huge spam HTML emails, or
virus-attached emails to download.

My configuration deletes mails off the server immediately.  I then have the "do
not download messages larger than xKB" option enabled, set to 25KB.  This means
that all messages >25KB are left on the server and not deleted, and so they
accumulate.

To stop them accumulating, I use another mail client (YAM - http://www.yam.ch/ ~
emulating AmigaOS on my Windows box), which does have the feature, or I use
webmail, or telnet:110 to the server.

Comment 6

[Mike Coppins]

Attachment: example of a mail client (YAM)'s mail download system

Added screenshot of a mail client called YAM's interface to download mails that
require attention (due to say a configuration that says "don't automatically
download mails that fall into this criteria").

Comment 7

[Christian Eyrich]

Isn't this bug a dupe of bug 47297? Adding the flexibility from that bug should
enable you to do the things you want.

Comment 8

[Mike Coppins]

Yep, sounds like it.

Comment 9

[:aceman]

Yes, the hack Christian provided in bug 47297 does exactly what this bug
requests, in my understanding. Mike, you are the reporter of this bug, mark it
as a duplicate or a dependent.

Comment 10

[Mike Coppins]

Hmm, bizarre.  I thought this bug /had/ been verified as a duplicate.

Whoops.  :-)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47297 ***