Re: [Evolution] folder filtering

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:46 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > is there any way I can automatically delete all mail over a certain age
> > in one of my folders.
> Not automatically.  Filters only operate automatically on the Inbox.
> You can create a search folder that uses your folder as a source, and
> then you can select all in the search folder and delete them
> occasionally.  The search criterion you need is "Received Date" and then
> specify a date relative to the current date.

+1  I've done this in the past.

> > It would be even more useful if on reading I could set its status so
> > that the auto deletion does not delete flagged mail.
> You can exclude the flagged mails from the search.

Why not just delete the un-interesting e-mails when you read them
[discover they are uninteresting]?

This is what I do.  I filter mail lists to folders about a topic.  When
I need to research the topic I search the folder.  In the process of
going through search results I delete the 'crap'.  My search results in
the future get better and better.  After, now numerous, years of this
approach the folders are a bountiful and effective source of information
[***way*** better than searching-the-Internet ("Google is not your
friend", unless you consider a huge sucking time vortex to be a
friend)].