140489 - POP mail "Delete messages on server when deleted locally" needs extra functionality

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47297

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Matt Fago]

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Please see bug #140431 comment #4

Set up POP account with "Keep messages on server" set, but do NOT have "Delete
messages on server when delete locally" selected. Delete a few messages. Then
select "Delete messages ... when delete locally." There is no easy way to delete
the older messages that were locally deleted, but not actually deleted from the
server.

Perhaps it would be possible to either:

1) Add a check to Moz so that when this option is selected, Moz checks to see if
any messages were deleted locally, but not on the server, and to either download
them all or delete them on the server.

and/or

2) Add an option to download _ALL_ messages on the server.


I hope that (1) is easy to implement. I've overlooked this "problem" on several
occassions. Once I even submitted it as a bug ...

Comment 1

[Mike Young]

Confirming... we should have a way to download all the messages on the server
even if we already have downloaded them. (I was under the impresion that if you
didn't delete them on the server, they would be downloaded again everytime... I
guess I was wrong.

Comment 2

[jglick]

>I was under the impresion that if you didn't delete them on the server, they 
>would be downloaded again everytime... I guess I was wrong.

I would agree.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 47297 -- this may be a subset of that.

Comment 5

[Mark Stier]

How about "sync inbox with server"?

Comment 6

[Frankie]

or perhaps this bug could be the "command to manually delete messages from server like Eudora does" request (subset of bug 47297)