Re: [Evolution] New feature/idea for Evolution

["Dwight D. McKay" <dwight owl bio purdue edu>]

On-demand filters are nice, but Evolution needs a general periodic task 
facilty so you can have it perform routine tasks like archiving (or deleting) 
mail.

I'd like to see something a lot like what Roberto askes for but with a 
periodic feature. I want to be able to do things like:

"Once a month, archive all the messages in folder foo older than 365 days into 
the file bar"

-- or --

"Once a week, delete any messages older than a week in folder foo."

This would greatly help in managing the mail on various mailing lists and 
internal lists that I want to archive.

In message <3A34FA24 843BE318 ling unipi it>, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco writes
:
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > You can already do most of that with on-demand filters. Just setup the
> > filters you want and select all the messages you'd like to apply filters
> > to and then use the message menu (or right-click menu) and select "Apply
> > Filters" and tada...all will be good.
> >
> > It doesn't know "last 200 messages" but you could just not select the
> > last 200 which would work :-)
>
> But this means (if I got it right) that I still have to choose one by
> one the messages I want to save/move/delete. I'd like to see the
> opposite:
>
> 1. I read my mail and flag the interesting messages;
> 2. when the folder looks "full", I hit the "Delete all" button and all
> messages except the flagged ones are deleted.
>
> Can I do this with filters now? Sorry if this looks like a dumb
> question, perhaps I haven't fiddled enough with Evolution :)
>
> > While there is support in the backend for user-defined flags, there
> > currently isn't a way for the user to set them so the "linux-flagged"
> > thing won't work yet either. But it will...
>
> Good to know :=)
>
> > Jeff
>
> Ciao
>
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