262738 - Allow filters to do automatic housekeeping of mail folders. (Filters based on age should run automatically.)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59365

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I would like to be able to set filters to be automatically applied to specific
mail folders (including those under Local Mail) each time Thunderbird starts up,
so that (for example) I can have a "Current Headlines" folder automatically
purge all messages over 90 days old which I have not set to high priority --
thus avoiding the need for ongoing manual housekeeping.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The UI is there: create a filter using the "Age in days" property.  The problem
is that filters are only run when the message first enters the folder, so
filters using the "Age in days" property don't work.

Filters with the "Age in days" property should run automatically when the
message's age increases beyond the threshold, or automatically on all messages
after checking for mail, or something.

Comment 2

[Howard Chu]

This is probably a dup of bug 59365. At least a dependency if not.

Comment 3

[John David Galt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59365 ***