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