Hi Michael > On Dec 10, 2021, at 07:30, M. Koch - MiKo-EDV <users@sogo.nu> wrote: > > The described function of "settings, email, filters" does only touch incoming > mails. > > I'd like to have a possibility to create a filter action for mails that are > already sorted into a subfolder. > For instance, I get every night about 60 notification mails from different > customers' systems about backup, status, etc.. > These mails go by filters into defined subfolders per customer and below that > even per device - all no problem. > But every let's say three months I want to clean up and delete all the mails > in these subfolders older than 3 months, since these typically "ok" > notifications are of no importance any more. > > Now, I must go to the subfolder, sort by sender and date, scroll down 3-400 > lines to the last "date of no-importance", click the next 3-500 mails and > then delete them (which only moves them into the waste bin, where I have to > delete them a second time ...) - and as this clicking takes more time than > the refresh interval, I can start from the top of the list again ... and > repeat that for about 10 subfolders ... > This task would already be easier, if there was within the "search within > this folder" options a seletion entry "older/newer than <date>". > > When still working with Outlook, I had created a rule set, containing the > definition of such a clean-up rule, and could execute it within any actual > subfolder ... > But only for this, it's not worth the license price.
This feature depends on the mailstore implementation. For example, Cyrus IMAPd uses annotations (/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire), which gives control to the user: https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/faqs/o-annotations.html Dovecot seems to only provide a way to autoexpunge mailboxes globally: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/namespace/#mailbox-settings Adding support for Cyrus annotation would be relatively easy. For Dovecot, we would need to use annotations (metadata, RFC 5464), to let the user assign a messages expiration to a mailbox and then extend sogo-tool to use this information to remove expired messages .. Basically doing what Cyrus IMAPd is already doing. Francis -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
