292858 - Autodelete RSS feed items after X days option

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 StumbleUpon/1.9994
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 StumbleUpon/1.9994

I'd like to be able to set my RSS feed folders to autodelete items older than a
configurable number of days.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[dpashute]

I'd like this as an option too as it'll save the hassle of manually deleting
items, especially when you have a large number of feeds. The point of RSS is to
save time polling a whole bunch of websites and not having an option like this
means that you end up losing some of that time performing 'maintenance' on the
feeds! :)

RSS Bandit has a well implemented system (see http://www.rssbandit.org) BTW.

Comment 2

[Matjaz]

TB 1.5 will feature a 'Retation Policy' - for each folder you'll have an option
to  set when to autodelete messages:
- delete messages that are more than xxx days old or
- delete all but hte last xxx messages

Comment 3

[dpashute]

Ok, cheers for info.

Any chance it could incorporate some sort of propogation down folders so that
given some feeds arranged like this:

o RSS Feeds (News & Blogs)
  o Games
    o IGN
    o GameSpy
    o Eurogamer
    o ...
  o News
    o BBC
    o SlashDot
    o ...

I could set the retention policy for 'games' or 'news' and everything underneath
it in one go? Only I normally have news items expire much sooner than blogs
(along with other less frequently updated channels) and I tend to group my feeds
into categories like this.

When is the TB 1.5 release due out BTW? Is it on the same schedule as FF 1.5?

Comment 4

[Matjaz]

No, currently you have to do it manually for each folder.

Roadmap says 1.5 release will be in September.

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Marking INVALID since this will be in the Thunderbird 1.5 release. Whether or not the UI for this is appropriate/discoverable/optimal is a seperate bug, and I'd encourage anyone to open said bug with suggestions like the one implied in comment 3