Ian, I'm not sure I understand. You have "leave-mail-on-server" checked, right? That means that you don't want Evolution to delete mail from the server. That is why it's not performing a DELE for the messages. If you want it to DELE the messages, you have to turn off keep-mail-on-server.
Jeff On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 00:24, Ian Forde wrote: > Hi all - I'm new to the list, though I've been using Evolution for well > over a year now. I'm having a problem using Evolution with a POP > account in that it won't delete any messages. Here's the setup: > > My machine: Linux Laptop (RH7.2, > >evolution1.0.3.99-various-snapshots-usually-the-latest-though-this-problem-has-persisted) > > I don't control the mailserver, and it's running Qpopper 4.0.3, with no > APOP support. Thus, I port-forward over an ssh connection: > > ssh -2 -L 4510:mailhost:25 -L 4500:mailhost:110 me@mailhost > > So I point Evolution at that mailhost:4500 for receiving mail and > mailhost:4510 for sending mail. I've turned on the "Leave messages on > server" option, since unchecking that one sucks the mail off of the > server and leaves me with no mail the when I'm done. (Sometimes I > travel without my laptop and like to use pine.) > > So when I "empty trash" and "expunge" the messages leave my "Local > Folders" but still stay on the server anyway. I've sniffed the > connection and watched message downloads, but at no time has Evolution > performed a "message delete" operation. > > Could the fact that evo sees this account as a "local folder" be > relevant here? And just to be sure... Mozilla mail works fine in this > regard, so it's not the server. (Evo is a better, nicer-looking email > client, supports gpg/pgp, and doesn't die when my browser crashes, which > is why I'm using it...) > > Any help here would be appreciated! > > Thanks! > -Ian > -- > ________________________________________ > Ian Forde, RHCE, SCSA, SCNA, SCDME, CCSA > CYTBeN, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
