Re: [Evolution] Questions on expunging

[Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 21:53 -0700, Akhil Laddha wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:56 -0800, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way to set up automated expunging to expunge all deleted
> > emails that are older than 1 month, 2 months, etc. instead of having it
> > expunge all deleted emails once a week, once a month, etc.  Usually
> > after an email has been deleted for a month, I no longer need it, but
> > now if I set up auto expunge each month, when it runs it expunges all
> > deleted emails regardless of when they were deleted.
>
> edit > preferences > mail preferences > empty trash folder on exit 
>
> These was a bug [1] which got fixed now.
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555979
>
> - Akhil

Thanks for the reply, but I do not want it to expunge all deleted emails
on exit, only the emails that are deleted AND older than a certain date
(e.g. 1 month old or 3 months).  That way the trash folder keeps teh
most recent deleted emails but expunges the older ones.

cheers,

ski

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