264887 - manage exisiting e-mails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[bartekgr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

This is an enhencement request. I receive a lot of email that come from
different mailing lists and so I filter them to different folders. All fine. Now
I think some menagement of stored messages would be useful. Something like
delete messeges older than 7 days. That would also be useful for the Sent and
Trash folders.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I think some menagement of stored messages would be useful. Something like
> delete messeges older than 7 days. That would also be useful for the Sent and
> Trash folders.

This would be a very bad idea.  Automatic deletion of mail ==> many bug reports 
about "where is my mail?"

There is an automatic delete-after-N-days feature (optional, off by default) for 
junk messages; you can also configure each account to Empty Trash on Exit.

You can create a filter, along the lines of
 if (Age, greater than, 10 days) Delete message
and run that manually on each folder in the account (except for IMAP accounts,
bug 177294).

See also bug 183714, bug 156500.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

actually, this is a dup, and we would like to do something like this, with the
default as Off.

Comment 3

[bartekgr]

(In reply to comment #1)

> There is an automatic delete-after-N-days feature (optional, off by default) for 
> junk messages; you can also configure each account to Empty Trash on Exit.

Doesn't apply, because of the way the Junk Mail Controls manu is organized. To
eneble delete it after N days I first have to eneble moving to some specific
Junk folder. The idea was it stays in where it is, but is deleted after N days
(or moved to trash for that matter).  
Thanks for the link to the other bugs, though. Scheduling of filters is
precisely what we need.

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