106241 - No option to remove all expired articles

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Lee Yohe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011010
BuildID:    2001101016

There should be an option to remove all expired articles located in the menu. 
Otherwise, one has to search for a message that cannot be retrieved from the
news server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Select a newsgroup.

Actual Results:  You have to find an expired message to be able to retire all
expired messages.

Expected Results:  You should have the option to select "Remove Expired
Articles" from somewhere in the menu.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Related: Bug 98534

Comment 2

[Michael Lee Yohe]

It's definitely related, and though I'd like to see Mozilla handle this
(eventually) - I wouldn't mind having a house-keeping button in the meantime.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Confirming.  But only as an enhancement.  I'd rather see this done 
automatically...

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 124453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 171974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[hrvoje lončar]

This option could be put in right-mouse-menu of any group folder in "folders 
pane", and maybe additional this option: "main menu" -> "tools" -> "remove all 
expired articles in ALL groups"

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Well, if you click on the link in an expired article, you can remove all of the expired articles. This is simply done by running a URI, so it's easy to put into an extension. As stephend points out, it would be better to do this as an automatic expiration, via 98534.

-> WONTFIX.