[ale] how do you delete IMAP server messages and not local copies

Preston Boyington preston.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 15:04:06 EST 2011


I use the Gmail IMAP feature with Thunderbird and keep my "lists" 
account as clean as possible.  I've another account that I forward email 
to when I find information in my lists that is useful and I wish to keep.

think I'm up to like 8 so far...

:D

Jerald Sheets wrote:
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> I have 14,703 in this mailing list alone.
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> - --jms
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> On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 05:40 -0500, Collin Pruitt wrote:
>>> I've heard nor experienced nothing of this kind with IMAP. My GMail 
>>> account and my personal email account are both accessed over IMAP,
>>> and both have around 7000 messages in them. 
>> Lightweight.  ;-)
>>
>> I have 35,000 --- and that's after I purged everything before 2009.  :)
>>
>> 	--- Mike
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