gmail blown up
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 14 13:56:20 UTC 2007
On Saturday 14 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> What I'd like to see on gmail is the ability to set an expiry rate -
> >>> delete everything older than 6 months. It's a real pain trying to do
> >>> this by hand when you subscribe to several lists. It's thousands to
> >>> go, and you can only do it one page at a time. Grrr...
> >>
> >> If you use thunderbird and pop3 with gmail you can use the check box for
> >> "leave mail on server" and specify how many days. Then tbird will do
> >> the delete on the server for you. I suspect evilution has the similar
> >> settings.
> >
> > I don't think it's possible to do such a thing with fetchmail.
>
> Don't know. I don't use fetchmail... But, looking at the "man fetchmail"
> I see thing like -k and -F that maybe useful.
I know I've used 'leave on server' before, but not anything that defines a
time-limit. -k is 'keep' and -F flushes all previously retrieved messages.
IOW, every time you collect your messages, if you always use -F you will
delete the messages last downloaded. Not what I want to do.
Anne
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