Re: Outlook Express Can Do this, How About Linux?

From: Ric K. (ric_at_duntemail.com)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:28:13 -0400

Clinton,

I think your suggestion should solve my problem. I assume that each person
will download every letter (even those that we want to go to another
department) and then filter out everything they don't care about. Since
everything remains on the server the other departments can do the same.

The only problem I see is that the letters that are actually used by an
individual never get deleted off the server. For example, the sales
department downloads a letter with the subject, "Here's My Order". This
letter remains on the server. Next, tech support uses Outlook Express which
sees the letter but ignores it since it has no tech support keyword. The
letter just sits there taking up space with no signal to delete it.

Do I have to do a manual purge or can the Thunderbird email setting of
"Leave messages on server for at most X days" be safely used? If I tell it
to leave the mail on the server for two weeks (plenty of time for the other
departments to purge their mail) will I be safe? That statement of "at
most" scares me. It almost sounds like it might randomly decide that
purging after one day is fine since it qualifies as a time interval less
than two weeks in length. What do you think?

Thanks,
Ric

"Clinton V. Weiss" <cvweiss@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:zuednSifq8Ysu_jfRVn-qw@comcast.com...
> Such filtering with Thunderbird is trivial. Click Edit, Account Settings.
> Here you will see a list of the accounts, choose Server Settings for the
> account you'd like to modify, and check "Leave messages on server", ensure
> "For at most..." and "Until I delete..." are both unchecked. Click OK.
> Now click Tools, and then click Message Filters. Since you are already
> familiar with filtering, the rest should be an easy exercise.
>
> Good luck,
> Clinton

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