Re: [Evolution] Problems with auto-pruning

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

you have to apply the filter to the messages.

filters are only, necessarily, only ever applied to new messages, or
messages you explicitly apply them to.

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:48 -0400, dthacker9 cox net wrote:
> Evolution 2.2.1   SuSe 9.3
> Desired State:
> All emails in mailbox "bb" (Big Brother Alarms") should be automatically deleted 5 days after I've received 
> them.  They are stale and have no lasting value. 
>
> What I've done:
> Created a filter "If date received is before 5 days ago" then "delete" on "incoming"  
>
> What's happening:
> Messages are never deleted.
>
> Is there a way to debug the operation of a filter to see what is going wrong?  Should it be set to 
> "outgoing" instead of incoming?  Is there a setting that says "run when mail client is closed" or something 
> like that?  
>
> TIA
> Dave Thacker
>
>
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