Re: [Evolution] folder filtering

[Richard <richard bown blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 06:58 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.
So have I. I have a list of save search parameters for each list I'm
subscribed.
> > > 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]?
I do quickly read all mail.

Murphy states that anything considered unimportant will become important
if deleted, so I try to hold mail for 3 months, and longer on some lists
> 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)].
 Thanks for the replies

-- 
Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown

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