[KLUG Members] Purging Mail In Firefox

[Jeremy Leonard]

You can set TB to purge on exit. That's what I use.

Mike Williams wrote:

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>> From:
>> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
>> Date:
>> Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:16:24 -0500
>>
>>
>>>> So do the same in the Trash folder or right click on
>>>> the Trash folder and Empty it.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yes.  But the orignal question - "Is there a keystroke in Firefox (like
>> Evo's Ctrl-E) to purge a mailbox of deleted messages."
>>
>> Emphasis on "keystroke".
>>
>> For users processing a high volume of messages having to use the mouse
>> isn't an acceptable answer; taking their hands of the keyboard makes
>> them very grumpy.
>>  
>>
> Maybe you should issue them DOS boxes?
>
>> These users also don't use "Trash",  deleted messages stay in the INBOX
>> marked as deleted (lined-out in most mail clients, including TB) until
>> purged.  They've got very good reasons for doing it this way and they
>> wouldn't change even if they didn't.
>>
>>  
>>
> I can think of a couple of possibilities.  Depending on the server 
> side package, you might be able to have a cron job that purges deleted 
> messages every so often.  I know the horde webmail package will 
> suggest that every month, so it's got to possible to automate that.  
> Also, Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird has a pretty impressive extension 
> language.  I wouldn't be surprised if somebody has written an 
> extension that does that, or if a decent coder could write one pretty 
> easily.
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