On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 09:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 8:57 am, _nasturtium wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 9:55 am, Michael Adams wrote:
> > > > I was trying to set up a filter on my sent-mail folder to delete
> > > > anything that has been there for 2 months or more. I can't quite see
> > > > how to do it as filters only seem to be applied to incoming or
> > > > outgoing mail not dates in folders.
> > > >
> > > > Any sugestions or am i blowing smoke.
> > > >
> > > > kmail 1.3.2
> > > > Mandrake distro 8.2
> > >
> > > Mine is KMail 1.4.3, so YMMV. There is 'age in days' as a filter
> > > choice.
> > >
> > > Related questions - I have set this on sent mail but it does not run
> > > automatically when mail comes in/goes out. I do wonder if 'sent mail'
> > > filters only run on mail at the time of sending?
> > >
> > > There is a check box for manual filtering, but I can't see how to apply
> > > manual filtering. Anybody got this working?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Hello,
> > I'm using KMail 1.4.3. What I do for some folders is right-click on
> > them, select Properties, then choose "expire messages". There's a few
> > options, you can choose whether to expire only read or unread messages
> > after x days. In this context, expiring messages means deleting them. So
> > you can set to expire messages in sent mail after 60 days as such.
>
> Tried that, but it didn't do anything.
Hmm...it works on my mandrake-expert mail folder.
Maybe it'll take 60 days before it works! :-(
>
> > I'm guessing manual filtering is when you apply filters to specific
> > messages by using Message->Apply Filters (or Ctrl-J).
>
> That seems a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It seems just as easy to
> highlight the message(s), > move to > etc... or delete.
You can quickly select all the messages with the "K" key, and apply the
filters to all of them.
Regards,
_nasturtium
>
> Anne
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