*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* It doesn't work under scripting. At least it doesn't work when called from a filter. I've done this and reported the problem. Here's the quote from Jerome to my question.
>Andy Fragen wrote: > >>For the life of me I can't figure out why incoming mail hitting a filter >>will not respond to the AppleScript line, >> >> set online status of m to marked for deletion > >Because of the way things are implemented. Mark for deletion works for >the next connection, but currently can't be set during a connection. > > >Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering It simply means that using AppleScript doesn't cut it -- yet. -- Andy Fragen On Sun, Jul 4, 2004, Victor Eijkhout said: >>Look under "Setup" menu and select "Mail Accounts..." >> Select the account in question >> Click on the "Receiving" tab >> Select "Leave copies of retrieved messages on the server" >> Select "Delete from server when deleting locally" > >I did select that. It looks like the delete on the server is only done >when I empty the mail trash, not when I delete the message. Correct? > >And btw, what I wanted was deleting everything on the server that is >classified as spam, without deleting the spam locally. Id like to guard >against false positives. > >Maybe I'll have to look into scripting. >-- >Victor Eijkhout >http://www.eijkhout.net/ > >
