195052 - Option to remove junk mail from POP3 account - even though other messages are left on server

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Jens Bente]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

If messages are left on the server, filtering junk mails is a convenient function.
So there should be an option, that downloaded and classified junkmail can
automatically be deleted from the POP3 account and the other mail is left on the
server.
This is specially of use when you have a fast account in the office and later
you access via a notebook and (slow) mobile.
So checking the mail in the office makes sure the data transfer via cell (even
though we use IMAP) is fast enough because junk mail was deleted.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
No optino to automatically delete junkmail from a POP3 account when other
messages are left on the server.

Expected Results:  
Junk mail can be deleted from the POP3 server even though other mail remains there.

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

dupe of bug 74430?

Comment 2

[Jim Booth]

*** Bug 208633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 213661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[lev]

+1 on this. 

I would suggest a checkbox on the account properties sheet under 
"Leave messages on server" and after "Delete messages from server after they are
deleted or moved from Inbox". 

Make it say "Delete Junk messages from server when they are deleted from Inbox".

Whenever a message marked "Junk" is deleted, it should then be deleted from the
server. This is very logical even if the user has elected not to delete any
other messages from the server.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Should this feature be implemented even for mail that is ID'd by the JMC filter 
and automatically moved to the Junk folder?  What if the Junk ID is a false 
positive?  This feature could lead to potential data loss.  I'm not arguing 
against it, but perhaps the precise of it could be finetuned.

How about deleting from the server for any of these conditions:
when the message is manually marked as junk; when a junk message is marked as 
read; when a junk message is deleted.

Comment 6

[lev]

How about this: delete the message from server if it is marked as "Junk" at the
time of it's deletion from the mail client. This way, the user has (by default)
2 weeks to figure out that the message is a false-positive (junk mail waits in
the junk folder for two weeks).

If the user manually deletes it before then, chances are, they've seen the
contents, and have confirmed that it's junk.

Same goes for messages missed by the system, and manually tagged by the user.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See the related bug 47297.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 241188 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 258072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

This new function was already implemented by someone else?
See Bug 262423.

Comment 11

[xerofun]

*** Bug 268392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #10)
> This new function was already implemented by someone else?
> See Bug 262423.

That bug was fixed, the behavior was uintended.

Current behavior (TB 2 and, I expect, SM 1.8.1): when the 'until...' option is checked, program no longer deletes on server for messages moved from Inbox, only for messages that are actually deleted.

The way I accomplish this bug's objective: on the computer where I don't want mail deleted from server, I don't auto-move junk, I just leave it in the Inbox.  Then when mail comes in, I change junk status on messages if necessary, then use 
  Tools | Delete Mail Marked as Junk in Folder
The junk is deleted and, on the next check for new mail, it's deleted from the server as well.