240149 - [RFE] Selective mail download and or deletion of mail on POP3 server.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 240161

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Description

[Steven Demetrius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

[RFE] Selective mail download and or deletion of mail on POP3 server.

1. Connect to a POP3 server and download only the header information for all  
the user's mail on the server.  Then display it to the user.
Eg. Sender, Subject, Date, Attachment, Frist line of e-mail.

2. Alow the user to mark each e-mail header for:
A) Download
B) Delete on server
C) Do nothing (not marked)
Any logical combination of A, B or C.

3. Have a command/button to execute the request as stated in section 2.

A good example/implementation of this is in a e-mail client called Pegasus Mail.

Benifits (not a complete list):
Reduce network traffic, since the user would not download unwanted e-mails.
Allow mobile users to selectively leave messages on the server so they can also
be retrived from other locations.
Allow the user to have the option of manual SPAM control when they chose to do so.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Reporter, is this a dupe of bug 185184?

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

also see bug 183456...

Comment 3

[Alex Hirzel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240161 ***

Comment 4

[Steven Demetrius]

Any idea why when I submitted this RFE once it shows up twice as both 240161 and
240149?

Comment 5

[Alex Hirzel]

Sometimes that happens.