I configured my pop3 accounts to leave the messages on server, and delete them when i delete them on mozilla, but mozilla doesn't delete the messages. sometimes it deletes a lot of them, but not all, sometimes it doesn't delete anything. I tested the same feature with evolution and outlook, and they delete ok the mails.

I think I'm having this same problem... My server setting is configured to "Leave messages on server" and "Delete messages on server when they are deleted or moved from inbox". I am using: Mozilla 1.3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 I've just moved 40 messages from inbox to a Local Folder(through a message filter) and even after many "get msgs" this 40 emails are still on the pop server...

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This is related to, and possibly a dupe of, Bug 89034 - Using filters stops messages from being deleted on the server. Reporter, do you have any filters enabled? Regardless, there are many bugs with deleting POP mail from server, and they should probably all be looked at together.

In case this is of help: I too have the problem that messages deleted locally aren't deleted from the server. I have 'delete messages from server turned on'. The sorts of messages that aren't getting deleted are the ones that are larger than the 'do not download messages larger than ...K' setting. Basically, if I get such a message, and delete it without downloading the rest of it, it stays on the server.

If Mario Medina had this problem with filtered messages, then it is a dupe of bug 89034. If not with filtered messages, but the messages *do* get deleted after a subsequent Get New Messages on the server, then it is a dupe of bug 154630. Mario, please comment in this bug whether either of those bugs are the same as this, and mark this as a duplicate if it does match. Fabricio Zuardi almost certainly is not seeing bug 154630, since he says the messages remain on the server even after repeated Get New Messages. If he is not using filters, then his bug is a new bug -- if he still sees the problem at all. (The filters issue has a workaround now, as of 1.6, since filters for POP accounts can be configured explicitly to delete from server.) Stefan Vorkoetter: when you say you "have 'delete messages from server turned on'" exactly which setting are you referring to? There are two possible settings: [] Leave messages on server or [] Until I delete or move them from Inbox (which corresponds to the preference mail.server.server/X/.delete_mail_left_on_server) According to bug 207571, if the second setting is on, then deleting the un-downloaded messages in the UI *does* in fact delete them from the server. If that's not the case, your symptom can still be mitigated by using the other new feature in 1.6, the server setting to delete-from-server messages older than XX days.

I have my mozilla mail set up to delete my mail off my server once i delete it from my inbox, and it does...sometimes. other times it will remain on the server when i check. it wont put it back into my mozilla inbox, but it wont remove it from the server. its usually when i leave it in my inbox for awhile, then delete it that it wont remove it.

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