Re: [Evolution] çå: [Evolution] Auto-expiring folders

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

it's already in bugzilla afaik

Jeff

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:02 +0800, çé wrote:
> Yes, it could do the trick, but anyway why can't we do it in more elegant/easy way like
> ->right click certain folder
> ->select "auto-expiring"  from contexted menu
> ->setup XX days in dialog
> since it's really a useful function. Should I address a feature request?
>
> > -----ååéä-----
> > åää: evolution-admin lists ximian com 
> > [mailto:evolution-admin lists ximian com]äè Patrick O'Callaghan
> > åéæé: 2005å1æ26æ 2:40
> > æää: Andre Klapper
> > æé: evolution lists ximian com
> > äé: Re: [Evolution] Auto-expiring folders
> >
> >
> > 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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