296502 - Feature request: message filtering on age of email

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177294

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stuart Halliday]

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I'd like to see the ability to perform a message filter based on the age of an 
email. I have to keep several of my IMAP and local folders content for several 
years whilst others I only need to keep for 7 days or a month.


Reproducible: Always




By having the message filters perform an action based on the age of an email 
via on its Date header I could set up a action to delete an old email or move 
it to a archive folder.

At present I can only set a message filter based on a fixed date which is set 
when I make the filter. 
So I can't, for example, move old emails into an archive folder based on them 
being say 365 days old.

Just having a filter do an action before or after a date is a little too 
limiting.
Other email clients I've used like Gemini on the Windows platform or 
MessengerPro or Pluto on the RISC OS platform allow filtering based on age.

It's a great feature to have for though of us who *have* to keep at least some 
of their email for business use for up to 3 years!
It also saves having to go back into a folder to delete old email which could 
simply be automatically deleted or archived.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

in trunk builds, you can already filter on "Age in Days" which is age relative
to today.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177294 ***