Clearing size of Emails on IDNet server?

[Technical Ben]

My friends like to send loads of document attachments. No idea why, but half the stuff they send is in the MBs. Stuff like Photos of screen prints in PDF emailed from the Apple tablet. 

So my email box (100mb) fills up quick.

Now for my own incompetence and admission of making a mistake... how do I set the webmail or Thunderbird to automatically delete large (or old) emails from the server?

I want to also access recent emails from my phone. So don't want "delete once downloaded" on automatically all the time, or every time, as I'll not get them on the phone then.

Any help much appreciated.

PS, when I delete them off the webmail, the "current usage" on quota is not updated yet. I assume it will show more free space tomorrow? Just saw the "trash" folder, instantly cleared now and most of my space back finally. I still don't see an "empty trash" button though, so how do I delete all the pages? Now how do I get it to do it automagically!

[stevenrw]

For Webmail, in Hotmail for example, if you want to empty the junk folder there's an "empty folder" option in the context menu (Right mouse).
"Trash" folder is cleared periodically otherwise, as is the "Deleted" folder, but periods probably vary between clients.
Don't know about other email clients but there is often a context menu option in any software.
On phones afaik they only delete emails locally (ie downloaded copies from the phone) anyway, so they will still be visible on your pc until you delete them from there.
I don't think you can create rules to manage mails once they are in your "Deleted" or "Trash" folders, because placing them in either of these folders reallly has accomplished what setting a rule would do anyway.
The only rules you could set are to move emails of a certain size or ones that contain an attachment to either of those folders and you don't want to do that automatically.

[Lance]

On roundcube (which Idnet use for Idnet.com) you have the empty folder option in the bottom left. As for automatically deleted old or large I don't know, but you can sort by size and then manually select the range to delete rather than hunting for the large ones amongst everything else.

[Baz]

In webmail click the ' settings '  option on top right corner....thats where it is for me any way....

in settings menu column on left hand side click ' Preferences ' ....

in Section column to the right click ' Server Settings '

in the nest column under Maintenance section select ' Clear trash on logout '

[Steve]

You could set your  POP email client to delete messages on the server once downloaded. It's the opposite of what I do though, I delete unwanted mail via IMAP on a variety of  devices and keep a copy of those required or then left on the server via POP on a single machine.

[Simon]

You could set your  POP email client to delete messages on the server once downloaded. It's the opposite of what I do though, I delete unwanted mail via IMAP on a variety of  devices and keep a copy of those required or then left on the server via POP on a single machine.

Likewise, and it seems to work very well.

[Glenn]

I just forward it all to a Gmail account 17Gb is plenty of space. 

[Steve]

Very true Glenn, I finally triumphed last week in persuading my wife to get a gmail account

[Technical Ben]

On roundcube (which Idnet use for Idnet.com) you have the empty folder option in the bottom left. As for automatically deleted old or large I don't know, but you can sort by size and then manually select the range to delete rather than hunting for the large ones amongst everything else.

Thanks!  This is what I did.


As you all said, I need copies to go to my phone as well. So only deleting some from the server is best.

I'll keep an eye on it, and see if I can find that "empty all" button. I may need new eyes... or a new brain, hard to tell which.