245076 - option to save only message headers less then .... lacking in offline & disk space settings for news-accounts

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[k b]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040524

option to save only message headers less then .... days is lacking in offline &
disk space settings for news-accounts.

in Edit -> Mail and newsgroup account settings.
select a newsserver, select the Offline & disk space settings.
The last option states Keep: Only message bodies less then .... days.

It would be good if there was an option: Keep only message headers less then ...
days.
This option should obviosly not be possible to set to a lower value then the one
for  message bodies.

observe that this is not the same as keep only messages that has arrived the
last .... days, since it might have been a long time since the message was
posted but a short time since it arrived to this clients newsreader, in such
case this option would go on the date the message was posted, not the date
arrived to this client.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[k b]

i would still like to see this.

Comment 3

[(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 4

[rsx11m]

Looking at bug 326584 attachment 374835 [details], combining "Delete messages
more than [x] days old" with "(Keep) message bodies less than [y] days old" should remove message bodies after y days and message headers after x days.
Thus, it appears to be already possible to do what is asked for here.