Re: Better mailing list interface?

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

>> 
>> 2) Some kind of assistance for cleaning up this kind of mailboxes would 
>> also be nice. E.g. I typically want to delete most messages older than 
>> a few months, but keep all the threads I've been involved in. That 
>> process could definitely be automated.
> 
> Yes you can now with filters : but you can only tell Balsa to trash 
> messages that are between 2 dates,
I'm not sure I understand how. I can set up the filter all right, but then 
what?

>  you can't tell it (for now) to keep the message if it is part of a 
> thread. The notion if thread itself is not understood by the filters (in 
> fact it depends on the type of threading you've chosen). But perhaps 
> this can be done.
Threading in support in filters would be useful, I think. And perhaps 
threading type could also be set as part of the rules?

- Toralf