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 - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
