Talk:Deleting Junk messages from POP server

Another lower-tech alternative to tricking Thunderbird into deleting Junk messages from a POP server is to use a "Local Folders" specific message filter. One of the actions available to message filters is "Delete from POP Server". Unfortunately, there's no "match all" conditional argument for filters, so I used "Status" "is" "Flagged", then flagged all messages in the Junk folder. After selecting the Junk local folder and choosing Tools... Run Filters on Folder, the next time I connect to the POP server(s), magically all of my junk mail is deleted.

If people believe this to be a reasonable alternative, I'll try to promote this comment to an update of the main page.

- Dave

easy solution

The solution below is probably what most forum members are looking for. --American Finn 14:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=583835

I think that on the old version of Thunderbird you had selected "Leave messages on the server until they are deleted or moved from the Inbox"

The developers removed that option from Thunderbird 2 and replaced it with "Leave messages on the server until they are deleted from Thunderbird". I suspect that this is the cause of the change you have observed.

You can return to the option you had in the old Thunderbird and see if it returns to the behavior you want. To do so you need to go to the Thunderbird Config editor:

Thunderbird > Tools > Options > Genral tab > Config editor

and toggle the value of mail.pop3.deleteFromServerOnMove to true.

Proposed rewrite of article

I do not think an article about removing junk messages from a POP server that requires the user to have a Apache server and be comfortable working with PHP is useful, especially given the easy alternative that American Finn points out. Anybody object to my rewriting the article?