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Deleting mail from server, but keeping a copy in Outlook?         


Author: deKay
Date: Nov 12, 2006 10:16

I use the program K9 to filter out junk mail, which it does by adding
"[K9Spam]" to the subject. I then have a rule in Outlook 2003 which moves any
downloaded email that matches to the Junk Mail folder. Outlook checks for new
mail every 5 minutes.

Because I access my email from several machines, I leave email on the server
(a POP3 server) for two days before Outlook deletes it. This means quite a
bit of junk accumulates there. This, however, hasn't been a problem until
now.

I've now started checking my email from my mobile phone. Of course, it now
picks up all the (unfiltered) junk. What I want to do, then, is alter my rule
in Outlook so that it deletes the junk from the server. However, I don't want
to delete it from Outlook, just in case it's not actually junk.

So, what I wanted to change my rule to say is basically this:

If email subject contains "[K9Spam]" then
- move a copy to Junk Email
and delete it from server

There doesn't seem to be an option to "delete it from server", but Google
searches suggest that "permanently delete it" does the same job. However,
adding this to my rule doesn't delete it from the server at all.
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RE: Deleting mail from server, but keeping a copy in Outlook?         


Author: Mary
Date: Nov 12, 2006 17:51

Change the mail setting time to every 10 minutes to give the servers time to
reset. Your rule will not work because the {k-spam} is added after Outlook
downloads the mail. Rules only work when it is being downloaded, not
afterwards.

"deKay" wrote:
> I use the program K9 to filter out junk mail, which it does by adding
> "[K9Spam]" to the subject. I then have a rule in Outlook 2003 which moves any
> downloaded email that matches to the Junk Mail...
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Re: Deleting mail from server, but keeping a copy in Outlook?         


Author: deKay
Date: Nov 13, 2006 01:31

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Sun, 12 Nov
2006 17:51:02 -0800, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
microsoft.public.outlook, yawatina tan reek esk Mary
discussions.microsoft.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Change the mail setting time to every 10 minutes to give the servers time to
>reset. Your rule will not work because the {k-spam} is added after Outlook
>downloads the mail. Rules only work when it is being downloaded, not
>afterwards.

No, [K9Spam] gets added before Outlook downloads the mail. The rule works so
far as the email is copied to the Junk Mail folder, it's the deleting from the
server that doesn't work.

Waiting 10 minutes makes no difference. Nor does 30 minutes, 3 hours, or a
whole day.

deKay
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Re: Deleting mail from server, but keeping a copy in Outlook?         


Author: Brian Tillman
Date: Nov 13, 2006 05:28

deKay deleteme.lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
> So, what I wanted to change my rule to say is basically this:
>
> If email subject contains "[K9Spam]" then
> - move a copy to Junk Email
> and delete it from server

There is no such ability in Outlook.
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Brian Tillman
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