GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 488798
Selective expiry of messages
Last modified: 2015-06-23 18:00:22 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.
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).
*** Bug 405881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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folders and the folders have different lifetimes, e.g. job applications can be deleted after about a month, spam is out of date after a few days.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.
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.
*** Bug 220810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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)
Implemented as part of bug #377352, please see the screenshot here. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 377352 ***