[Evolution] Auto-expiring folders

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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
> 
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