237829 - Add filters based on the Age of the message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177294

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Ferran Foz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

When you're subscribed to a news service adn you just want to
store the latest 2 months it would be very good to add a 
message filter that would allow you to delete messages
"older" than a number of hours/days/months/years.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

In "Mail and Newsgroups Account Settings" under "Offline & Disk Space" you can
check "Keep: 
"Only message bodies less than xx days old"

Is that what you mean?

Comment 2

[Ferran Foz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> In "Mail and Newsgroups Account Settings" under "Offline & Disk Space" you can
> check "Keep: 
> "Only message bodies less than xx days old"
> 
> Is that what you mean?

No. I'd like to add a filter: Tools > Message Filters.

For example, i'd add a filter with the following parameters:
   Sender is "[e-mail]"
   AND
   Message Age is more than [3] [months]
  
   Action -> Move to folder "Bugzilla Archive"

See what i mean. If i use to get a lot of messages from some
address, o with a given subject, i want them to be in my Inbox
just for 3 months.

This is just an example, but i'm thinking of lots of uses. We need
ways to help us organize our mail when we get 100 messages a day...

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

But there *is* an "Age in Days" criterion.  However, it's restricted to POP 
mail; this is one of the filter criteria that are unavailable to IMAP.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177294 ***