1324318 - per-sender/address retention policy within a single folder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[bob4723]

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Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

"feature to auto delete mail from a given address older than x days" is already available, although two step setups are needed.
1. "per email address mail folder" for required email address, with intellectually utilizing already-available message filter.
2. Already-available Folder Properties, Retention Policy

Comment 2

[bob4723]

(In reply to WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency from comment #1)
> "feature to auto delete mail from a given address older than x days" is
> already available, although two step setups are needed.
> 1. "per email address mail folder" for required email address, with
> intellectually utilizing already-available message filter.
> 2. Already-available Folder Properties, Retention Policy

The objective is to support a per-sender retention policy within a single folder. This would allow, for example, the automatic deletion of old promotions from deals.frys.com from the inbox without having to move them to a separate folder using a filter. The feature would meld functionality from the retention property and the filter function.

Comment 3

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

There are also some add-ons to add an expiry date to mail messages and/or to remove expired messages. Maybe you can accomplish what you want using these add-ons…