Re: Selective remote mail deletion

["B.Hoffmann" <dark.project@virgin.net>]

> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:05 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > does anybody know of a utility/package that would perform what I'm
> > looking for?
> > Would like to be able to remotely and selectively delete messages while
> > they are still on the server without launching the mail  client or at
> > least without fully logging in and downloading all new messages.
> > Similar to the remote functionality offered by Foxmail on Windows since
> > many years, and I hear since recently in Outlook as well...
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> I am not sure if Evolution is capable of doing that.  However, I
>believe
> that mutt can be configured to download only headers until you
>actually
> choose to read a message, then only that message is downloaded.

Thanks. I believe, perhaps wrongly, that Evolution is not currently
capable of this.

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:52 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Depending on how comfortable you are with the command line, you
> could run this program:
> 
> $ python popdel.py <your.ISP's.pop> <your_username>
> 
> It asks you for a password, then displays From, Subj & Date and
> asks you if you want to delete it.
> 

Thank you for your script. Seems like a good answer, I will give it a
try.

Kind Regards,
B.Hoffmann

Linux User #398054