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Bug 488798 - Selective expiry of messages
Selective expiry of messages
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 377352
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 220810 405881 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 377352
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-21 09:46 UTC by Raphael Mankin
Modified: 2015-06-23 18:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Raphael Mankin 2007-10-21 09:46:19 UTC
I would like to be able to set an expiry time on each folder individually so that messages older than a given age are deleted. Alternatively, use rules/filters to oeprate on all filters. such rules would have to be fired at regular intervals.

At the moment, all we have is that messages in trash folders can be deleted periodically. Rules/filters cannot be set on anything except incoming/outgoing messages.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-10-21 13:29:34 UTC
probably a WONTFIX, i cannot imagine a useful user interface for this, and i have never seen this request before (at least not on a per-folder basis).
Comment 2 André Klapper 2010-08-10 23:00:20 UTC
*** Bug 405881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Raphael Mankin 2010-08-11 21:05:40 UTC
The motivation for this is that I have categorised my messages into folders and the folders have different lifetimes, e.g. job applications can be deleted after about a month, spam is out of date after a few days.

XFMail, for instance, allows one to set per directory expiries.
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2010-08-11 21:31:37 UTC
Search folders can be configured to find messages in particular folders older than X days.  Then you just have to periodically visit the search folder and delete everything.  Not exactly what you're looking for a reasonably close workaround.  I use something similar for mailing lists.

Anyway, not likely to happen without a patch submission.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-09-20 13:11:54 UTC
*** Bug 220810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Marcin 2015-05-22 07:06:21 UTC
I'd like to bump this up as this is important feature. 
Right now, there's an option in the message filters, that one can actually define to delete mails older than, but it's useless because filters are run only on new mail arrivial. 
So the solution is:
 1 - run this specific filter every day/each evolution start/stop
 2 - add this option folder settings (this one would be much better imho)
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2015-06-23 18:00:22 UTC
Implemented as part of bug #377352, please see the screenshot here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 377352 ***