kmail issue/feature request

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 7 September 2018 12:23:44 BST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Friday September 07 2018 10:23:12 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > account, so I then have to log on to GMail and delete everything there
> > by
> > hand.
> > 
> > Perhaps I've missed something in the GMail setup.
> 
> Yes, GMail can be tricky like that. You may try setting "Automatically
> compact folders (expunges deleted messages)" in the advanced account
> preferences. That solved a few other things for me too. But I don't think
> it was required for the expiry feature which (I think) just moves
> messages to GMail's trash bin. Which is exactly as I want it.

That's already set, and I've set the wastebin target as my local one, so 
there should be nothing left upstream.

> Funny, I also have a local IMAP account on one of my machines, but that
> one is for archiving stuff I really want to keep (locally), so I move
> things there by hand.

I had to set up a server to fetch my ISP's POP3 messages and serve them to 
me via IMAP, because KMail used to get its POP3 knickers in the most awful 
twists I'd ever seen.

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Regards,
Peter.