Re: [Evolution] Deleting Old Email

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 15:11 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 10:31 -0500, Barbara Tobias wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to get rid of old email?  I use my email folders
> > extensively as a substitute for a file cabinet, but don't need to keep
> > things more than five or six months.  I know that I can sort by date,
> > select everything older than what I want to keep, delete them, and then
> > expunge.  I'm just hoping there might be an easier way.
> > I'm using Evolution 2.26.1 under Ubuntu Linux 9.04.
>
> Use Cyrus IMAPd IMAP server and set expiration on the relevant
> folder(s).

Several points here:

1) This not part of standard IMAP, so Evo doesn't support it in the user
interface.

2) Most users can't dictate what server-side software is run.

3) Even if the server is Cyrus, expiring a folder requires either a
login account on the server, or the intervention of an administrator.

poc