[Users] Deleting messages previously retained on POP server

[Michael]

Piere:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 19:40:42 -0400 Papa Oz. wrote:
>
> >Claws newbie here.  I finally had to give up on Eudora.
> >
> >I prefer POP to IMAP.
> Ditto.
>
> >I have several machines.  Each can read the mail.  All are set to leave
> >mail on the server.  One is designated to archive all the mail.  On
> >that machine I want to selectively mark messages to be deleted from the
> >server, but I want to keep them on the client.
> >
> >I suppose I could set up the archiver to always delete from the server,
> >but there are two reasons I would prefer not to do that.  First, since
> >the archiver fetches periodically, it would delete messages before the
> >other machines could look at them.  And second, occasionally a message
> >needs to be reported to the ISP as spam or objectionable, and for that
> >I need it on the ISP site.
> >
> >I downloaded some old archives of this list and poked around a lot.  I
> >saw some discussions that were sort of similar but not precisely.
> >Could anyone please give me a clue as to how to selectively delete
> >messages from the server that have been fetched but left on the
> >server?  Many thanks.
>
> Sounds like you're not taking advantage of a special resource: time!
>
> Set archiver to collect messages on regular basis; but only delete after
> N days (mine is set to 10 days).  All other machines have no problem
> getting their copy of the messages, unless one or more is down, on
> vacation, in for repair, whatever for more than those 10 days.
>
> No need to manually worry about messages on server; they all end up on
> archiver and other clients have plenty of time to get their copy.

But if there was a reason for his approach .... would it be possible ?