Re: [Evolution] Automatic folder cleaning

[Dominic Knight <dominicknight gmx com>]

On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 11:54 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 12:40 +0100, Gabriele Brosulo wrote:
> > Il giorno mer, 27/12/2017 alle 11.24 +0000, Pete Biggs ha scritto:
> > > On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Gabriele Brosulo wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I'm flooded by a lot of messages coming from servers I
> > > > administer, and
> > > > actually I move them into folders using filters.
> > > > I'm wondering if there is a way to tell Evo (3.12.9) to clean
> > > > folders
> > > > automatically, in order delete messages older than 1 month.
> > >
> > > I don't think it works for 3.12, but in 3.26 if you right click
> > > on the
> > > folder name and then preferences there's an "AutoArchive" tab and
> > > you
> > > can configure it there to delete messages older than a
> > > configurable
> > > age.
> >
> > Nope, 3.12 does not have a "Preferences" link right clicking the
> > folder
> > name. It just have a "Properties" link (maybe it's just an Italian
> > translation issue?),
>
> Sorry, yes, properties not preferences.
>
> >  but there's no AutoArchive tab.
> >
> > Do you think it's possible to have Evolution upgraded on an
> > oldstable
> > Debian box?
>
> It's difficult - near impossible. The backend EDS has lots of
> dependencies on recent Gnome libraries so you have to build lots of
> other things. It's probably easier to install a different distro!
>
> P.

Not at all easy for oldstable(Jessie), and dependent on your
architecture too, you would be perhaps better to move to
stable(Stretch) to get 3.22.6 or testing(Buster) to get 3.26.2 - Debian
package list below. Part of Debians release page below:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=evolution&searchon=names&su
ite=all&section=all

Package evolution
wheezy (oldoldstable) (gnome): groupware suite with mail client and
organizer 
3.4.4-3: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips
mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc

jessie (oldstable) (gnome): groupware suite with mail client and
organizer 
3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips
mipsel powerpc ppc64el s390x

stretch (stable) (gnome): groupware suite with mail client and
organizer 
3.22.6-1+deb9u1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mips64el mipsel
ppc64el s390x

buster (testing) (gnome): groupware suite with mail client and
organizer 
3.26.2-1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mips64el mipsel ppc64el
s390x

sid (unstable) (gnome): groupware suite with mail client and organizer 
3.26.3-1: alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf hppa hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-
amd64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mips64el mipsel powerpc powerpcspe ppc64
ppc64el s390x sparc64 x32 
3.26.2-1 [debports]: sh4