520322 - Option to delete messages by retention policy not when you open the folder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091002 Shredder/3.0pre

Because of bug 515301 messages are marked as read when you enter a folder which messages were automatically deleted by retention policy.

Is there a way to delete messages selected by retention policy manually? Is it possible to implement retention policy deletion when user exit Thunderbird and not on every entering the folder?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[marvinhk]

yes, the retention policy should be applied even if the folder is not manually visited

my situation being folders with RSS feed items.
I used the folder view unread most of the time.
Thus for RSS feeds without any new post, the folder won't be visited and "expired" message just stays there.