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From: eastender on 9 Apr 2010 04:43
A quick question - when you delete the emails in Mail's trash folder, is
it possible to also delete them on the server at that point (or at least
on next mail check) without deleting other older messages still on the
server?

E.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Apr 2010 05:08
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:43:41 +0100, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com>
wrote:

>A quick question - when you delete the emails in Mail's trash folder, is
>it possible to also delete them on the server at that point (or at least
>on next mail check) without deleting other older messages still on the
>server?

What's the server - POP won't (depends on whether you delete on
download or not), while IMAP and Exchange sync your deletes so they
should hold the same as you see in Mail at your end.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday
is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -- Robert Goddard
From: eastender on 9 Apr 2010 05:34
In article <jhrtr592ukd3h52r17a0n4s87re5tm8lej(a)4ax.com>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:


> What's the server - POP won't (depends on whether you delete on
> download or not), while IMAP and Exchange sync your deletes so they
> should hold the same as you see in Mail at your end.

My two main mail servers are both POP - but when I used Eudora I was
able to delete the trash and then I think it deleted all deleted
messages on the POP servers when mail was next checked. This is useful
when you have two machines you pick up mail on as then the second one
doesn't get a lot of spam that then has to be deleted again.

E.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Apr 2010 05:38
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:34:42 +0100, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com>
wrote:

>In article <jhrtr592ukd3h52r17a0n4s87re5tm8lej(a)4ax.com>,
> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>
>> What's the server - POP won't (depends on whether you delete on
>> download or not), while IMAP and Exchange sync your deletes so they
>> should hold the same as you see in Mail at your end.
>
>My two main mail servers are both POP - but when I used Eudora I was
>able to delete the trash and then I think it deleted all deleted
>messages on the POP servers when mail was next checked. This is useful
>when you have two machines you pick up mail on as then the second one
>doesn't get a lot of spam that then has to be deleted again.

Mail behaves as per the settings in Prefs/Accounts/your pop
accounts/Mailbox Behaviours, and also in Advanced/Remove copy from
server.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents' - H.P.Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Apr 2010 05:40
eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote:

> A quick question - when you delete the emails in Mail's trash folder, is
> it possible to also delete them on the server at that point (or at least
> on next mail check) without deleting other older messages still on the
> server?

This for POP3? In which case it's a standard feature of Eudora (which I
use) so I imagine it's built in to the POP3 protocol, and must be
settable in Mail's prefs, as it is in Eudora's.
--
Peter
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