Re: [Evolution] Purge Old mail

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2009, 20:04 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> You do realize that the Sent-date (i.e. the Date header) is set by the
> sender and can be anything, right? I.e. it's not reliable as an
> indicator of the message age. Recieved-Date is set by your local server
> and is much more likely to be correct.

Thanks. I'll change that.

> > 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.
>
> Does this work on IMAP folders? I don't see how it can. The IMAP spec
> defines Expunge as an operation on physical folders, i.e. there's no way
> to expunge some messages in a physical folder and not others.

I use it only on local folders. I always move incoming mail arriving in
imap folders to a local INBOX.

thomas