it's already in bugzilla afaik Jeff
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:02 +0800, çé wrote: > Yes, it could do the trick, but anyway why can't we do it in more > elegant/easy way like > ->right click certain folder > ->select "auto-expiring" from contexted menu > ->setup XX days in dialog > since it's really a useful function. Should I address a feature request? > > > -----ååéä----- > > åää: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick O'Callaghan > > åéæé: 2005å1æ26æ 2:40 > > æää: Andre Klapper > > æé: evolution@lists.ximian.com > > äé: Re: [Evolution] Auto-expiring folders > > > > > > Using "Date Received" should avoid this problem. I always use this for > > sorting my folders as the Date: header is unreliable. > > > > poc > > > > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:24 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > > > On Di, 2005-01-25 at 19:02 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > > > > What I'd really like to have is this: In KDE's KMail > > (which I used a > > > > long time ago, before I switched to Evolution), you can > > set messages in > > > > your mail folders to auto-expire. That is especially > > useful for folders > > > > holding mailing lists: Just define that for your > > mailing-list folder, > > > > messages older than a month should automatically be > > deleted whenever you > > > > "purge" your mail folder. Now either manually purge the > > folder, or set > > > > the program up so that it automatically does this every time it is > > > > closed, and there you go: All messages that are older > > than the age you > > > > specified automatically get deleted (ideally, there would > > be an option > > > > on a message-by-message basis to exclude important or otherwise > > > > interesting messages from being automatically removed, but I can't > > > > remember if KMail has a feature like that). > > > > > > > > I haven't found any "native" support for a feature like this in > > > > Evolution - I can only imagine that it might be possible > > to do this > > > > using normal mail-filters (on the other hand, these can > > not be applied > > > > to whole folders natively, but only to (an) individual message(s), > > > > right?) > > > > > > hi nils, > > > > > > well, you could set up a "date received | is before | a > > time relative to > > > the current time" incoming filter and apply it manually, > > but be aware if > > > you have enabled automatically applying of filters to > > incoming mails, > > > that mails sent by people with very wrong dates on their windows > > > machines (hehe ;-) will also directly go into trash. > > > setting up filters that *only* apply manually is not supported yet > > > <http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22179>. :-/ > > > > > > cheers, > > > andre > > > > > > -- > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | failed! > > > http://www.iomc.de > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > ��z%ØfXbyb1h&ib1h&ffX)ß[ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
