Re: Feature Request: Delete after <n> days

[Matthias Andree <ma+balsa dt e-technik uni-dortmund de>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Shaun McCance wrote:

> Some of us in the world still have to use POP3, sadly.
> Balsa allows me either to keep messages on the server
> or to delete them as I download them.  Would it be
> possible to add in an option for 'delete after this
> many days'?  I don't like deleting my mail when I
> download it, because I check my mail from multiple
> places.  But it has to get deleted some time.
> 
> Right now I run a perl script as a daily cron job
> to handle this, but I think it would be better to
> have the functionality in Balsa.

Your current approach is the perfect way: one task, one tool, and your
tool not only works with balsa but any other mailer. However, how do you
know how old a mail is without sending TOP <nr> 1 for each mail on the
server? Track the date alongside the UID may be a solution -- but it
looks as though balsa did not use the UIDL command of the POP3 protocol.

I'm still killing my old mail with mutt every other week (local on the
server), and I'm comfortable with that even after three years. Not an
option without shell access, of course.

-- 
Matthias Andree

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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