On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I have struggled with getting kmail to directly delete filtered > crap myself for some time. It just occurred to me, based on this > thread, that there may be a clunky way to do this. > > There is no direct way to set kmail folders to point to /dev/null > and trying to forward or move or pipe any email message to > /dev/null will also fail. I will try this next thing myself: > > What if you create a folder in kmail the usual way, setup your > filters to pass junk into it, etc. After creating the folder, exit > kmail, open a konsole, enter the ~/Mail directory and rmdir the new > directory and replace it with a symlink by the same name to > /dev/null. > > Thus, say I create a folder in kmail called "Spam". This creates a > dir in my ~/Mail directory ($HOME/Mail/Spam). I would quit kmail, > open a console, cd into my Mail directory, remove the Spam folder > and recreate it manually as a symlink to /dev/null. Hopefully, > when I subsequently restart kmail, it will see the Spam folder as > still existing but any mail passed into it will instead be going to > /dev/null. > > I think I will try this right now. > Interesting idea, Praedor. Let us know what happens - if you've any success I'll try it in the morning.
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