GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 220810
RFE: an "expiration date" for e-mail
Last modified: 2012-09-20 13:11:54 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: This is a feature request. It would be nice to be able to specify an "expiration date" for a received e-mail. There then would be a quick way of marking all "expired" e-mails as having been deleted. This is a feature of Outlook that is missed. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: How often does this happen? Additional Information:
As per RFC 1036, users are discouraged from providing expiration dates for messages unless there is a natural expiration date associated with the topic. System software should almost never provide a default "Expires" line. Leave it out and allow local policies to be used unless there is a good reason not to. Expiration date setting is higly cohesive with the server and it is already implemented for GroupWise servers. It can be accessed in "Send Options" for GroupWise accounts. Moving to connector, since I dont know if it is implemented for Exchange servers.
From RFC 1036: Since local hosts have local policies for expiration of news (depending on available disk space, for instance), users are discouraged from providing expiration dates for messages unless there is a natural expiration date associated with the topic. This is for USENET news AND relates to the SENDER, not the reader. I fail to see how this has anything to do with a particular mail end-user deciding that they want a particular message that they've received to have a particular lifetime. I frequently receive messages about a talk or event scheduled for a certain date and want to keep that message until it is no longer relevant. I would like to be able to mark those messages, when I receive them, as having an expiration date and have them automatically deleted. This would avoid my having to go back and cull through hundreds of "dead" messages later on. What has this to do with RFC1036? I have no idea. But the whole thing speaks more to the reason why I switched many years ago AWAY from Evolution and am loathe to return. See, I tried to be a good end user and report bugs via bugzilla and, occasionally, suggest improvements that *I* would like to see, fully understanding that if no one else was interested, then they would never be implemented. For the most part, I've never received a reasonable response, even when the problem was a flat out bug, rather than a suggestion. I really wish Novell/Ximian luck with their projects. Now I have to go as I have a lot of e-mail to read with Thunderbird.
*** Bug 237590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Dup of bug 377352 / bug 488798. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488798 ***