John A. Kinsella said the following on 24/06/2005 10:24:
> Hi
> I use a text-based mail reader pine to read my work email from home.
>> I have spamassassin etc set up to filter my stuuf into folders & mark
> spam for deletion.
>> problem is that evolution doest actually delete stuff till expunge
> command is entered (Ctrl-E keyboard shortcut).
>> So when I use pine from home I still see all the junk marked for
> deletion.
>> Is there any way I can send a Ctrl-E to a running Evolution form a
> separate login session at home?
>> Thanks for any tips,
>> John
You can send an Expunge command from any mail client. *HOW* it's done is
depending on your client though. In it's simplest form, you could even
just create a Perl script that logs in and runs EXPUNGE on all your IMAP
mailboxes (folders to us normal mortals) ..
//Anders
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