222515 - Automatically delete messages after a specific period of time

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11055

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Stier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Imagine mails moved to the junk mail folder. I want to get rid of them when they
have been in the junk mail folder for a specific period of time. If I move them
to another folder and then back to the junk mail folder (or any other folder
which has this option enabled), the time count should restart.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mark Stier]

Could be implemented as an additional mail folder option (mail folder properties
dialog).

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Tools... Junk Mail Controls... Automatically delete junk messages older than []
days from this folder

That it?

Comment 3

[thesh_bugs]

This can also be done globally using message rules.

Comment 4

[Mark Stier]

Using message rules for such a task is not nice. The junk mail thing is not
applicable to other folders.

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Yeah, but you just mentionned junk mail folders.

You want this 'delete after X days' to work on any folder??

Comment 6

[Mark Stier]

Yes. Sorry for not been explicit enough.

Comment 7

[thesh_bugs]

It's actually very easy to do with message rules:
______________________________________________________
|Age in days | Is greater than |          #           |
|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|
|(...)                                                |
|                                                     |
|[x] Delete the message                               |
|_____________________________________________________|

And that's it.

Comment 8

[Mark Stier]

As far as I oversse it, that is a method that must be run manually. I want them
to be deleted (maybe after archiving) automatically.

Comment 9

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11055 ***