Re: [Evolution] Purge Old mail

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Winti,

I use a vfolder to find all mails that have a Sent-date older than a
month, have a label called "mailinglist" and don't have a label called
"scorehigh". Incoming mail was filtered and labeled before, of course.
So, from time to time I go to this vfolder and expunge all mails with
Ctrl-E. I use the svn trunk version (2.26.1 right now) of evolution and
there is a little caveat, however. The contents of the vfolder are not
updated automatically. So, I have to right click the folder, go to
properties, modify e.g. the Sent-Date, close and reopen the dialog and
reset it to the desired Sent-Date and the vfolder gets updated.
Works nicely for me.

thomas

Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2009, 21:04 +0200 schrieb Dwinti:
> Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2009, 11:06 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> > When you say "purge" do you mean "delete" or "expunge"? If you mean
> > delete, you could use an external script. If you mean expunge, and your
> > mail is on an IMAP server (you don't say), it can't be done because of
> > the way IMAP works.
> I meant delete old mails after a certain periode of time to empty folder
> i use to organize mailing-lists.
> Under Windows i used thunderbird who hab folder properties that could do
> this for each folder.
> Now on Ubuntu i wanted to use Evo, because it's calendar function are
> better than Thunderbird/Lightning.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Winti
>
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Thomas Mittelstaedt