backup pop3 account, partial clean up

Hello!
I am using a pop3 account. I access this account from different
computers with Evolution, kmail or similar programs. Therefore I
always chose the option "Leave messages on server".

Now the storage limit on the server is reached. I'd like to move all
emails from earlier than January 2007 to my local computer for backup
and then remove those emails from the server.

How do I remove certain emails from the server, selected automatically
by date?

(If this is impossible, I could get all emails from the server by
disabling "Leave messages on server". Then I could locally chose the
recent emails, which I still want to have on the pop3 server. These
recent emails need to be uploaded back again to the pop3 server. Is
this possible?)

Chris

Re: backup pop3 account, partial clean up

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chris_h_henderson@yahoo.com writes:

> Hello!
> I am using a pop3 account. I access this account from different
> computers with Evolution, kmail or similar programs. Therefore I
> always chose the option "Leave messages on server".
>
> Now the storage limit on the server is reached. I'd like to move all
> emails from earlier than January 2007 to my local computer for backup
> and then remove those emails from the server.
>
> How do I remove certain emails from the server, selected automatically
> by date?

Check the documentation of whatever mail software that you're using. The
POP3 server is not going to do anything on its own. It will delete whatever
messages the POP3 mail client tells it to delete, therefore you will need to
check the documentation of whatever mail software you use.

> (If this is impossible, I could get all emails from the server by

It is certainly possible. Your mail software has to tell the server which
messages to delete, and it will be done.


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Re: backup pop3 account, partial clean up

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:09:11 -0700, chris_h_henderson@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hello!
>I am using a pop3 account. I access this account from different
>computers with Evolution, kmail or similar programs. Therefore I
>always chose the option "Leave messages on server".

Some clients remove the messages from the server when you delete them in
your client. If this is the case you could download the messages you
want to backup and save them to disk. After that you just delete the
messages in your client and they will be removed from the server.

>(If this is impossible, I could get all emails from the server by
>disabling "Leave messages on server". Then I could locally chose the
>recent emails, which I still want to have on the pop3 server. These
>recent emails need to be uploaded back again to the pop3 server. Is
>this possible?)

If you can access the pop3 account through imap you could also try to
use a program like imapsize (which can do more than just report size).

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