248882 - automatic removal of mail messages from a folder similar to nntp message expiration

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[David Cornish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

KMail (kmail.kde.org) has a rather useful feature which allows a folder to have
an expire setting on it so that messages with a particular age (say 14 days old)
are deleted when the MUA exits.  This is useful for example with folders which
contain mailing lists and you want to keep the most recent messages to follow
discussions, but not to keep an archive since you first subscribed. 
Additionally the functionality can be used with the Trash folder to delete old
trash (see also bugs #220894 and #248248).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Lance Haverkamp]

This should be changed to OS = ALL

I can't believe T'Bird doesn't already do this!  

Comment 2

[Heiko Adams]

IMHO it would be more usefull if TB would offer the ability to move those mails
to a special "backup" account. Just like Outlook does ;-)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[David Cornish]

This feature appears to be implemented by folder retention policy in the latest
version of Thunderbird and therefore should be resolved.

Related bugs: 278182 297758

Comment 5

[Lance Haverkamp]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This feature appears to be implemented by folder retention policy in the latest
> version of Thunderbird and therefore should be resolved.
> 
> Related bugs: 278182 297758

Please explain; there is nothing listed like this under folder properties (1.0.7
Debian unstable); what is this folder retention policy of which you speak, and
where do I find it?

Thanks, 

Lance

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

it's in trunk and 1.5beta builds, not 1.07 - 1.0x releases are security fixes.