i_am_jim wrote:makaiguy wrote:
For POP3 accounts, you can set TBird to delete messages from the server when you move them from your Inbox after downloading.
I need clarification on this. Are you saying just moving a message to any other mailbox/folder will cause it to be deleted from the server on next startup? I have filters that move incoming messages from their default inbox to all kinds of other mailboxes/folders. Occasionally I move a message to Trash (delete the message from inbox) accidentally. When that happens I move it back to where it came from. So, if simply having moved a message out of the inbox dooms it to be deleted from the server, I can't use this feature. I want it to be deleted from the server when I empty the Trash and only when I empty the Trash, which I have set to happen when I exit the program.
Double-click on the mail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove entry to toggle this option between true and false -- set the value to TRUE.
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ail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove is currently set to False so this may be the heart of the problem, but as stated above, I can't change this if just moving a message from its incoming mailbox/folder will cause it to be deleted from the server.
Yes, with mail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove set to TRUE, moving a message out of the Inbox (which is the ONLY "folder" the POP3 protocol knows anything about) is supposed to cause TBird to tell the server to delete that message from the server's Inbox the next time TBird connects with the server.
With your settings, if you DELETE a message, that message should be deleted from the server the next time you connect. I don't know if it waits til the Trash is emptied or not before adding a message to the to-be-removed-from-server list.
Frankly I don't know if TBird considers moving a message to the Trash folder instead of deleting it the same thing, although they are operationally equivalent (copies message to Trash and marks copy in Inbox as inactive so it doesn't get displayed). From your description, it sounds like TBird doesn't consider moving a message to be a deletion. So if you want to get rid of a message from the server so your wife can't subsequently download it, DELETE it.
Again, that is the way it USED to work several years ago, and as I said I no longer have any POP accounts on which to experiment to see if anything has changed. You're the one with the POP account handy, set up an experiment or two and see what it does and doesn't do. You'll probably have your answers in less time than it took to write that reply.
{edited to fix typo}